More code means more support and more maintenance. If your team is already overloaded or if it's going to be reduced because of AI, things are going to get tough.
Feedback is often only considered once something is already on fire (financially, functionally, or literally).
They’re not even selling shovels, they’re selling subscriptions for shovels.
For example, there's also no cabal behind memory prices dropping (ignoring the development of the past months, of course), which in turn enabled web and game developers to use more memory and make their software non-viable on older devices.