Remember NONE of this was really ever about making money or good art.

This is a product of a cancerous and pseudo-spiritual ideology in the ruling class that the working class are fundamentally only temporarily useful.

There’s also the fascist side to this:
They will monitor your computer this way. They will extract personal information about you. They will use that information against you. They will abduct you and kill you if you behave and answer anywhere rebellious against fascist.
This was the end goal, direct access to personality, asd how easily they can curtail you.