Capitalism demands that companies do things that aren't good for consumers in order to maximize profits. Through the lens of game theory, a lot more corporate behavior makes a lot more sense. Until regulation makes it more expensive for a company to do user-hostile things than not, they'll keep making those decisions as rational actors. Developers are a fungible commodity. I'm not saying that change never comes from developers, just that when it does, I've found that it was because it was wrapped in a pitch of how to do something another way to make even MORE profit. So long as a thing is legal, or legal enough (risk of getting caught * negotiated penalty amount vs potential profit), what motivation would they have to not do it?