I suspect this is less about creating utility for users and more about leveraging existing user bases to train AI. e.g. Most users don't want Copilot, but it's

I suspect this is less about creating utility for users and more about leveraging existing user bases to train AI. e.g. Most users don't want Copilot, but it's being installed by default. Unless you dig into privacy preferences and flip a lot of check-boxes, you're going to be providing data to help MS train AI by default. MS doesn't care if you find Copilot useful or even use it. Your data is still useful to their efforts to train their AI.