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For a consumer product this practice is indeed annoying. For a B2B or B2B2C product, it helps weed out the hobbyists and nosy competitors.

Competitors don't have an issue creating dummy accounts to test who they are up against.

dummy accounts that have corporate email domains? While not impossible, it's a non-trivial hurdle.

Why do you want to bother with that, fake emails are a dime a dozen, no need to bring the real corporation into the picture.

see above

> For a B2B or B2B2C product

So what?

I don't need a company email to extract the information I care about.

Never did research for competition when replying to RFPs?