I see all this dark patters and user-unfriendly tactics as a way to deceive the market with metrics that wont matter if in the long term you lose user's trust.

I see all this dark patters and user-unfriendly tactics as a way to deceive the market with metrics that wont matter if in the long term you lose user's trust. It might increase the perceived value of a company to retain some users, but in the long term such tactics are damaging the company reputation, thus effectively diminishing the value of the company/product.