Isn't this what all of us are complaining about right now? Various business segments (video games, content, video aggregation) doing the bare minimum copying ex

Isn't this what all of us are complaining about right now? Various business segments (video games, content, video aggregation) doing the bare minimum copying existing content and monitizing it with psychological usury? Clickbait-y headlines, overly gamified games, etc. All the same thing, but they only work because they work--people clicking, paying, etc... How do we as developers deal with these segments or agents we find intellectually dishonest?