You'd think that the engineers developing it would understand that if you need this UX to introduce a feature that's a good indication that your feature isn't solving a problem users have
Still, there's a perverse delightfulness in watching the company that was so famous for engineering driving it's software and decisions do this in a manner clearly devoid of those things. Its like watching the Straumli Perversion unfold from the other side of the Beyond.
Considering the havoc that's played out in the gaming industry, I'd rather not have another software based industry get even worse. It's not like this is new, these companies drove surveillance capitalism.
I just hope the engineers are compiling a bunch of reports saying that people are behaving in ways that clearly indicate they don't want it - on FB, I let the stupid AI rewrite one post just to see how it works, then never used it again.