The world went mobile, and Faustian software licenses undermined actual ownership.

Thus, customers get software companies that are SaaS even when they appear to sell some product. Accordingly, most "Computers" sold today are "information-appliances" with constrained predefined use-cases the dominant OS publishers allow people to use.

Few FOSS projects survive contact with such ecosystems, and likewise software App sellers drive platform decay due to shifting priorities that mess with users.

This is also why many modern AAA games have online game-play even when it makes no sense to do so... And why we see 147 fart Apps on the App store. =3