>> How come something is created with the user in mind, yet it tries to lock in the user and milk cash from him/her whenever it can?

err... wtf... you recently come from north Korea or something ?

The point of a business is to make money, that is their bottom line - in practice they have no other aim (do no evil my ***).

And controlling the customers device allows the company to make more money. Given this, what - you expect the business to take the less profitable but more "ethical" approach and over time get beaten by businesses that are more profitable ?

Welcome to the real world and how business works - if anything blame the general consumer for behaving in such a manner which means that for a business to make the most money, they must exercise such control.

dont hate the player, hate the game haha