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diminishing market and margins call for extreme pressure to monitize whatever is left of the user base.

These aren’t commodity office printers. They’re UV inkjets, which are used to print artwork onto objects and cost many thousands of dollars.

So it sounds more like TDD (technobro driven development)

I assure you that “sneaking spyware into installers” predates “tech bros”

No it's your average hardware vendor wanting to spend the smallest possible amount of money on software.