As someone who’s worked on dark patterns like this in the past, I can assure you, difficulty of creating a new setting is not the reason for the “show this less

As someone who’s worked on dark patterns like this in the past, I can assure you, difficulty of creating a new setting is not the reason for the “show this less” pattern. It’s much more simple: if a “permanently off” setting is worse for metrics, it won’t get built that way.