A small number of mobile games sell better make obscene money, the vast majority make a pittance or lose money. But corporate types cant stop salivating at the thought of being the ones to own the next candy crush, so they’d rather take a shot at that than produce something with merit that will likely make a reasonable return.

Its so American to make your own-brand Christmas a month early then call Christmas food a knock off of that!

No but your argument that no-one is forced to buy cigarettes is equally valid to arguing that for micro-transactions. One is chemically adictive, the other uses physchological tricks and is almost entirely unregulated.

Thats true in a surface level way. Buts its equally true about cigarettes, heroin any other adictive substance you can think of.

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That’s a reasonable stance to take when said company is just one competing in a marketplace. But when they are a monopoly operating a quasi-utility that should be public its not good enough.

They propably would if a common topic of discussion was “this is how leggings have got worse today”

Is this particularly worse than when Medium was filled with artisinally hand crafted slop before AI was a thing?