That is entirely by design? If you collect so much diverse data that you exploit in 100 different ways and share with 1000 different companies that you require

That is entirely by design? If you collect so much diverse data that you exploit in 100 different ways and share with 1000 different companies that you require a hundred pages of individual consent checkboxes, the system is working as intended. Will most users just accept all? Maybe. But I think the share of concerned users is larger than you believe it to be. And if history is any indication, "reasonable default settings" have a bad habit of never erring on the side of data collection minimization, particularly for new and novel features.