That's just modern capitalism in a nutshell. Buy a brand that has value, reduce the quality, exploit the consumer's brand loyalty, discard the corpse. Magic is cooked. At some point the "community" will have to take it back or just move on to something else.

This feels like a trick... BDSM?

Talk? No. Type? Yes. (written from my Lappy 486)

OP said they're drinking, Pepsi Max which has no sugar.

The comments here are fucking wild.

Outside of the caffeine, there’s nothing inherently special about a fizzy drink habit that would make it remarkable from other habits when it comes to giving it up. So a guide like https://www.health.harvard.edu/blog/how-to-break-a-bad-habit-202205022736 could be useful.

What is BDS?