I didn't quite expect this day to come.

When I saw KuaiLian announce the withdrawal from mainland China operations, my first reaction was that it came so quickly, and there was an indescribable sense of loss.
It's not a perfect tool, and often criticized. But during the phase when many people "just learned to look outside and see the world," it did accompany a period of time.
Like a door, not always open, but you know it was there once.
Now the door is closed, and it's closed quietly.
No grand farewell, no plot twists, just a simple statement: We tried, but couldn't solve it.
Looking back, over these years, familiar tools, platforms, entry points, one by one fade out of sight, like the tide receding.
You hardly have time to say a proper goodbye, only realizing one day when you see the news: Oh, it's gone too.
It's described as the exit of a product, but it's more like a tiny puzzle piece of an era being quietly taken away.
Maybe new substitutes will appear in the future, maybe technology will always find a detour forward.
But that feeling of "opening the world for the first time" probably won't come back.
It's quite sentimental.