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This was never supposed to be a word. Why are we doing this
Your head is going to hurt even more if you are a German: The prefix "ent" usually means to lose or get rid of something. I.e. "I got rid of it" -> "Ich habe es entsorgt" so everytime I read "enshittification" I had to remind myself it's the process of making something worse not better.
So "disenshittification" is a double knot in my brain. I propose "disshittification" as alternative.
Your proposal is so much better than the original word itself, too.
I hate it. I'm soooo tired of reading it.
My suggestion would be to do treat it like German has other potential loan words and make a new word that is a literal translation.
Maybe something like "sheißemachen" / "entsheißemachen"?
I've started just mentally replacing it with "rot"
Because if one uses the word "good" sea lions en masse migrate immediately and surround the speaker demanding to change the subject to are ethics real and why the mean tone and is that even a word.
If it really had to be a word, couldn’t it be unshittify?