@olamundo It's more profitable for a monopoly, that can endlessly exploit the userbase, without providing any real value. They can cut maintenance and support costs by locking things down, and that's all that matters, cut costs as much as possible cause it will "sell" no matter what. Without competition no objective standard of quality can form.

> You don’t see heavy machinery being adapted so any braindead person can fool around carelessly.
If you count tractors as heavy, you do see it. Electronics industries are taking clues from software industries on exactly how much they can get away with.

> Sports don’t change their rules so people who don’t want to put in the effort can play.
Esports do that, intentionally lowering the barrier to entry to make the game more popular. The rules are proprietary software so nobody even knows what they are, people perceive it as a natural phenomenon and nobody questions it... until the publisher decides to shut down the game servers and it suddenly becomes obvious for them that have been exploited