Facebook can die in a fire and the world would be better off. I was barely using my account before and I deleted it 4 years ago after all the Cabridge Analytica stuff came out. I haven't missed it at all. In fact I think my mental health improved.
Sure, Apple have a disproportionally large power that should be acknowledged and stifled sensibly by regulators, but man do they create truly beautiful products that make my life better in myriad ways.
Facebook, on the other hand, maintain a business model that seems to do little but incentivise actions that exhaust ill societal outcomes. It's exhausting (pun intended), and I've certainly felt my mental health crack slightly under the burden of some of their products (not WhatsApp, which is fantastic and I hope isn't integrated further into their ecosystem from a user perspective).
Your claim is that people get little value out of Meta's products? I don't know how it is for the older generation, but people of my age (20s) get a ton of value out of instagram.
I feel like in our critiques of social media people often forget that generally people like to communicate and share with others online.
So I get plenty of positive use from FB.
Users love the product so it grew it’s enormous userbase to what it is today. Companies have to comply to the restrictions that Apple imposes on them, because they can’t miss out on the userbase as their customer.
As a user I can’t really think of any guidelines that I’d want to be changed or doors to be opened, I feel like it’s mostly non-users or companies requesting them.