If this is indeed a deliberate dark pattern then it is ingenious. The problem is that very so often mistakes are more common than deliberate “malice”.<p>Hanlon’s razor is often the case at smaller companies.<p>Deliberate “mistakes” are more common at very very large FAANG type companies where a groups P&L rests on deliberate dark patterns or strategy taxes or being anticompetitive.<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanlon%27s_razor" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanlon%27s_razor</a>