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>or they will manage to keep shoving propaganda cause you don't have other options and is forced to buy anyway?
Absolutely, without a shred of doubt, yes.
You are treating consumer products and media markets in the west as if they are open and free, where anyone can enter and participate, and they simply are not.
The era of pro-growth innovation in corporate America and the west is fucking over.
The vast majority of household and personal-use products were perfected decades ago. They were literally made too well. You see automobiles from 30 and 40 years ago still on the road. Washers and dryers from the 70s and 80s that run as well as the day they were built because any 2-bit mechanic can repair them on an hour's notice.
This ultimately hurt the companies that made them. They were so simple, effective, and so reliable that people never had to replace them or take them back to the dealer for maintenance.
Most importantly though, the manufacturers could never increase their bottom line because if they tried to cut costs, people would just move to a competitor and buy their product when it came time to replace.
So bereft of any ability to improve or innovate, these companies stopped trying to create and set out to destroy. They borrowed money at preferential rates, bought their competitors, and shut them down. Amazon did this for decades. It also borrowed to outbid smaller competitors on labor and key materials so that those competitors could not operate. They've lobbied government not to hammer them with antitrust legislation, despite their blatantly monopolistic and cartelistic behaviors.
If you think game publishers and devs won't find a way to do the exact same thing, you're being foolish.
If it comes down to borrowing vast sums of cash to license and occupy compute space for graphics and game engine-capable AI, just to let it sit idle so that potential financial and ideological competitors can't use it, then that is exactly what they'll do