I'm not going to try to convince you that your preferences are irrational, because I probably won't change your mind and have better things to do.
I will try to convince you that the preferences you are attributing to "people" are unlikely to be universally accurate in describing "people". You should probably recalibrate your understanding of people's behavior, because when you understand what people actually want you're more capable of delivering things which both you and they will benefit from.
I once thought that people hated getting email. I hated getting email. Except from, well, all the people I didn't hate getting email from. I have substantial evidence from clients and other people I find credible that people not only like getting email but will actually respond in predictable and positive fashions to the right email. I also have a stock of anecdotes which bewildered me when they happened, like people emailing me asking why I didn't send them a November BCC newsletter (Me, mentally: "Don't you know its going to be the October one with gsub applied to it?" Her, literally: "I really really really want to hear about Thanksgiving bingo." Me: "Wait, people pay me money for that all the time, how did I not see that sentence coming.")
There are almost certainly people in the world whose preferences are more similar to you, in that they would not like to get emailed by me. That's cool. They should not give me their email address and instead do something they would prefer. Cat videos or something, whatever.