@nprofile1q... Whole bunch of people, mostly men, decided to make it their whole personality, get incredibly defensive or straight up aggressive whenever you point out all the awful aspects of it.
Marketing makes the users feel empowered and self sufficient, while in reality they're fully dependent on a giant industry and have to keep paying in order to use the thing.
The whole AI=cars analogy makes more sense the more you think about it, just not in the way the techbros intended.