I live in Canada. Tipping has reached ludicrous levels with many places starting at 25% by default when you pay. You can tip at Subway now. Like, I get it, but

I live in Canada. Tipping has reached ludicrous levels with many places starting at 25% by default when you pay. You can tip at Subway now. Like, I get it, but really? Why can't you tip the person putting your order together at McDonald's? What can't you tip for, hypothetically speaking? Can you tip the programmers on top of the subscription fee you pay for a SaaS product? It's just lunacy. Pay your workers, bake it into the price. If you can't compete we seek service elsewhere. Europe has a much more sane tipping culture, and VAT included in pricing to boot. There is zero transparency about how much things cost these days and it frustrates everyone. How can we even discuss sustainability of wages and cost of living if it's so obfuscated nobody knows what the baseline is? If everyone stopped tipping the wait staff at once this country would literally implode.