It mirrors the new structure of the industry: developers are a totally separate market from users and generally get paid to work on software whose purpose is to

It mirrors the new structure of the industry: developers are a totally separate market from users and generally get paid to work on software whose purpose is to exploit and "farm" users through surveillance capitalism and AI/ML powered soft mind control. In other words developers (and their employers) are customers while users are a product or resource to be exploited.