Not unless you misunderstand how protocols work. Milking data, user friendliness and open protocols are orthogonal areas that gives different benefits. User fr

Not unless you misunderstand how protocols work. Milking data, user friendliness and open protocols are orthogonal areas that gives different benefits. User friendliness makes it so people actually use the product, open protocols forces the service/application providers to care more about the user (otherwise they leave for something else, taking their data with them) and milking data can be done no matter how good/bad user experience is and if the protocol is closed/open.