Agree to disagree, but your conclusions and what you consider "weird" are just absurd. The reason people don't use their friends' services is because the supply

Agree to disagree, but your conclusions and what you consider "weird" are just absurd. The reason people don't use their friends' services is because the supply doesn't exist, not because there's no demand. And /r/homelab (and the numerous spinoffs) would highly disagree with you; the fact that they exist is what you would call "the proof" which is "all around us".