Typekit (acquired by Adobe) makes licensing and using web fonts MUCH easier than it is to do without. I share your distrust and dislike of Adobe, but let's not pretend that there's no value to that particular service.
[0] See https://flaviocopes.com/css-system-fonts/#popular-websites-u... . In the future, web devs might reliably use "font-family: system-ui;"
I am not using one of these services. I had to pay $600 for a font family, still have a page view count in my license (I am supposed to track that myself and purchase a bigger license if it exceeds) and I have to make sure fonts are not easy to download (license requires me to figure out how to prevent downloads myself).
So it’s not hard to see why Typekit is very appealing — you don’t have to deal with any of that.
Edit: it seems this entire thread is heavily downvoted -- both sides of the argument. Is it off-topic? Bad faith? Why the downvotes?