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There's only one reason for this: You aren't the customer, so your incentives aren't aligned with the vendor's. Your data is being sold to other companies, so you getting value out of the software is only necessary insofar as it keeps you there. That's not where the vendor makes their money.

Classic enshittification. Unfortunately, I have no idea how to evade it.





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