A platform is a vendor system, and I have spent my career watching vendor systems end.
My work is enterprise integration: getting a mainframe, a CNC controller and a commodity server built three decades apart to agree on what a record means. Every migration teaches the same lesson. The organizations that come through one are the ones that kept their own copy, in a format somebody else can still open, described well enough to find again. The ones that trusted the system of record to stay the system of record spend the following year rebuilding it from printouts.
Creative work runs on the same physics. The feed is a system of record you do not control, and its retention policy is not written down anywhere you can read.
So what I write here is the operations half. Masters and exports. Formats that outlive the editor that made them. Description attached to a file rather than remembered by the person who saved it. A route back to the people who read you that does not pass through somebody else’s ranking.
Most of my hours are in automotive, additive manufacturing and perishables — places where a bad handoff appears on the floor, or in a truck, the same afternoon. That is the habit I brought with me. Assume the connection breaks. Decide in advance what you keep.