Believe it. You're anthropomorphizing. It doesn't understand anything. There is no "thinking" going on. Yes, the point of LLMs as a service is to make money. Yes, the service is designed to maximize profit. Yes, there are dark patterns baked into the system. Yes, keeping you addicted and using the service is part of the business model. This isn't human instrumentality, it's just capitalism.
Until you realize the machine isn't qualitatively superior to your own mind and your own efforts, you're just going to keep torturing yourself because your nature forces you to maximize your productivity at any cost, which given your false assumptions about LLMs means ceding as much of yourself to the machine as possible and suffering its inadequacies. I use "you" collectively here because it seems like a lot of people have worked themselves into this corner where they don't like what LLMs do for them but feel compelled to use them anyway.
It's just a tool. If you don't like the tool, don't use the tool.