I don't think capitalism is to blame, as this is endemic even in free software. The way to stop this is to stop repeating dogmatic myths about optimisation, consider efficiency/optimisation as an integrated part of the design process and not something to be applied afterwards, and focus on "user time is expensive" instead of "developer time is expensive" --- and sometimes, those users may also be developers.
Yep. With forced auto-updates, software companies have implemented "software gavage," and the devs are just getting paid to push code down users' throats. It's much harder to entice users with something they might actually want.
