I strongly believe this sort of behaviour comes from companies who for some reason think they need their products to have some sort of "experience", usually the ideas of marketing people.

I remember many years ago buying an unbranded tablet from Alibaba -- direct from an OEM -- for a fraction of the cost of a Wacom, and it didn't even need drivers to start functioning. What drivers did come with it on the CD were minimal, unsigned (very common at the time, along with the instructions to click past the warning when installing) and surprisingly even had source code. The configuration utility wasn't a bloated abomination and didn't add itself to autorun on startup.

In other words, it felt like a humble servant ready to work for you, rather than attempting to coerce you into its "experience". It probably wasn't as responsive or featureful as a Wacom, but worked decently for the cost.