I think the trend comes from services, like YouTube, enabling captions by default. I almost always disable them, because they’re distracting. However, sometimes

I think the trend comes from services, like YouTube, enabling captions by default. I almost always disable them, because they’re distracting. However, sometimes I can’t be bothered. I suspect many people can’t be bothered even more often. I enable captions sometimes for single words, which I failed to hear right, although usually in those instances captions show something completely nonsensical.