Those could - but don't have to be - valid arguments for using it while still retaining self respect, e.g. making an informed choice on what is best for the project one is working on.
Most users accept it because they have no better choice. If an app is terribly slow but a lot of online communities and friends use it, what are they gonna do, just not interact with others? You want to play recent Nintendo games but don't want to regularly replace the controllers due to an unfixed issue that affects roughly 50 million people and has a perfectly working solution for over 20 years? Too bad. But I guess Nintendo calls it acceptable for most users because it's not quite bad enough that people stop using a product they paid for.
People are already voting with their wallets and they're overwhelmingly voting for more exploitation, partially "helped" by the manipulation systematically employed in the industry that's already worked wonders for classic gambling. And Valve investing in Linux gaming had nothing to do with the size of the target audience - luckily for us.
That's a description of the problem.
This thread is people who ship products vs people who ship engineering.