Supposedly the original DeviantArt owners were about to bankrupt and as such the site had to be sold. The buyer happended to be Wix, which is abit of a shitty company in my blunt opinion.

Since then they reworked and removed several site features, upped their premium cost (and renamed it to core), proceeded to ignore any and all feedback from the userbase that wasn't brown nosing and launched the mess that is Eclipse.

That's not touching upon the algorithm for all the fetish art (which let's be real, has always been there) or NFT situation.