They are anti-features to those who can, and would prefer to, make more choices themselves. There are many things in life I don’t care much about, and would just rather have a default I can live with. As long as I can choose to change them later if it becomes important, I’m ok with that.
I think there are two main paths to easier-to-use: mass production (what you’re calling anti-features are mostly these) and individual customization (tends to be expensive b/c we usually can’t automate this yet, and it requires knowledge about individual preferences that can be hard to gather).
Weaker competition gives companies leverage over consumers. The Invisible Hand compels companies to extract maximum profit from whatever leverage they have.
Anything that reduces competition also reduces pressure on companies to optimize only for profit. They might anyway, but there’s less risk to them if they don’t.
They are anti-features to those who can, and would prefer to, make more choices themselves. There are many things in life I don’t care much about, and would just rather have a default I can live with. As long as I can choose to change them later if it becomes important, I’m ok with that.
I think there are two main paths to easier-to-use: mass production (what you’re calling anti-features are mostly these) and individual customization (tends to be expensive b/c we usually can’t automate this yet, and it requires knowledge about individual preferences that can be hard to gather).
Anything that reduces competition also reduces pressure on companies to optimize only for profit. They might anyway, but there’s less risk to them if they don’t.