Inertia. In the UK, for example, every local government council, the NHS, central government, charities etc use user Twitter//X as a free channel for announcements and publicity. Quite often they manage it though things like Hootsuite that lets the, plan and manage and cross-post to Facebook etc.
Deciding to quit that is quite a major step - especially when there isn’t really a clear single alternative that has similar reach and userbase.
I mean, I still think World of Warcraft has one of the most atmospheric sound tracks out there. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lM_RlI5qVXI
Oddly enough, I have an iPhone 7 I still use occasionally. It got a security update yesterday - https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT213913
Basically, they had a free application called ‘Textwrangler’ for many years and decided to wrap it into the free version of the paid-for BBEdit etc.
Ive used the free version for 10 years and have never felt the need for the paid for features. It’s pretty cool. Here’s what yuo get in the free version:
The technology is magnifying the flaws in capitalism