[zimablue]

So you've picked a metric "profitability".

First one paywall, third one no evidence, second one correlation causation. It's head smackingly obvious that the most profitable companies tend to be the largest/most publically visible, and the most vulnerable to lobbying for quotas, and with the most ability (since their profit is based on being a big boy who can extract rent) to implement whatever is socially desired at the time.

Take tech, look at the most profitable companies, they're also the biggest, they're also the most lobbied.

Per your final comment, the job of senior executives is not always, (or even normally?) focussed on market research/product. Old Apple being the famous exception.

There's gap between your prose and how watertight the evidence you presented is.