You always own your intellectual property, mailing list, and subscriber payments. With full editorial control and no gatekeepers, you can do the work you most believe in.
Another media entity decides to end any real debate in its pages. Bezos first made the WaPo an unreadable woke propaganda outfit and now ends what little diversity of opinion there was within the paper to an exclusively socially-liberal-fiscally-conservative niche, which is increasingly rare even among elites.
David absolutely right to quit. Bezos has no idea of what a newspaper is supposed to do.