Guilty. I've started taking requests for permission to send push notifications as a strong signal that I've accidentally clicked on clickbait.
It seems that we've gone through a strange curve, early internet (up to the early 00's I'd say) was a pretty shady place with scams and malware around every corner if you weren't careful, then we had a decade of relatively smooth sailing as things settled a bit and the players who actually provided good service managed to take over (e.g. Amazon) but now these big players have a monopoly and they are getting greedy and start becoming actively user-hostile again.
I wonder what the next step will be.
Also, you can send ads using notifications and earn money.
That 19% of people are not monolithic. Probably some people understand what is going on, other people just realize it just another distraction, it is like having a homeless person try to sell you a macbook in San Francisco. A quality of life thing.