This toxic shit is intentional, and the people who direct the business are very pleased with the money they are making. This will not change without force of law. The market is getting exactly what it wants.
Yup. The flipside being that, at least until recently, "the market" didn't know that Linux was an alternative here. It's starting to. Of course, half the people here in HN love that, and the other half actively and/or passively work against it.