>>54754406I mean, there's a lot more to this analogy.
If a Pizza shop ACTUALLY was also selling shoes on the side, eh maybe there might be one or two weirdos who might buy it.
The problems were -
1. Pizza shoes weren't really that much better than the shoes you get at the shoe shop, and arguably were even worse, so no one would buy these shoes other than the weirdos.
2. The Pizza shop occasionally put Shoe merch as complementary gifts for Pizza eaters, and sometimes even put the Shoe as a complementary topping for certain Pizzas. Naturally, the Pizza enjoyers did not like this, and would shit on the Pizza shop shoes and hope they close down the entire thing and throw the shoes away.
3. The small and loud weirdos who became Pizza shop Shoe fans were extremely annoying, asking every Pizza item to have a shoe topping just because THEY liked eating shoes with their Pizza.
All these factors combined to less and less people coming to the Pizza shop, even though it had literally the best Pizza in town.
Some people were fine with eating shitty Pizza just to avoid having shoes on them as toppings, and some people just stopped eating Pizza entirely and switched to Pasta or something else.
They still had a long and treasured history of selling the best Pizza ever though, and the Pizza menu items without shoes were still good so some people still ate there, although the more shoes took up space, the more these people kept getting annoyed.
Even the people who switched to other dishes or ate shitty Pizza were nostalgic of the times when this Pizza shop used to be good, and hoped for them to be great again.
