I agree, if you’ll allow me to diatribe my thoughts about why this could be (without thinking that these are my actual firm opinions);
Since right now there is an aire of competition, I would guess that these companies believe its winner-take-all, and are doing their “one monopoly to aid another” to get this market before theres another verb-leader (like chatgpt for llm, or google for search).
It could also be that they think that people won’t know how good they are until they try it, that it has to be seen to be believed. So getting people to touch it is important to them.
But, I think I agree with you, its so heavy handed that it makes me want to abandon the tools that force it on me.
Since right now there is an aire of competition, I would guess that these companies believe its winner-take-all, and are doing their “one monopoly to aid another” to get this market before theres another verb-leader (like chatgpt for llm, or google for search).
It could also be that they think that people won’t know how good they are until they try it, that it has to be seen to be believed. So getting people to touch it is important to them.
But, I think I agree with you, its so heavy handed that it makes me want to abandon the tools that force it on me.