The classic engineering-product conflict

The product would be OK if it wasn't for the business people.

Here's one example: the Plex media server. It used to be that Plex let you connect to your local media server to view your own local media.

Today Plex spams you with as many ads for 'free' media that it can, and even if you remove the crap from the user interface it comes back with the next update.

This doesn't seem like an engineering kind of idea, but rather a business idea that they get a penny for each time they spam you.