This is it. For-profit companies exist to make a profit, not a product. Any time you ask “why did they do this thing that makes the product worse?” remember that the product doesn’t matter to them, only the money it makes. If a change makes more money, they’ll do it.

Some might think a worse product means worse sales and less profit, but they’d be wrong. Enough people buy products regardless of their quality that it’s often more profitable to simply make the product as cheap as possible while maintaining just barely enough of the most basic functionality to meet the definition of what they’re trying to sell.