The problem is people take this perfectly legitimate bit of reasoning and apply it to the point the site ends up like your average British local news website; there's a good reason nobody bothers with local news in the internet era and not because it's unimportant it's partially because most of the sites are literally unusable. Not even in a 'I find the tendency of capitalism to turn everything into a glorified billboard depressing' sense that's a common opinion online, I mean that in a 'I've closed three nag boxes and I still can't see the content I came to read' sense.