[judge2020]

This all stems from natural monopolies. Our antitrust laws in the U.S. were modeled with the presumption that it'd be extremely hard to create such an efficient process to the point that the company could harm user choice without the business being a national or global actor - and this was proven when only truly logistics-centric companies like big oil could reach the threshold of being considered a monopoly. The internet flipped that on its head when anyone with enough money could hire the absolute best talent possible from across the globe to create a product that undoubtedly is the absolute best solution for the (majority of) users that choose to use such platform.

The only reason you can't find important information without logging in is because these consumers profit off of the product by using it as the only place they post their findings (profit, as in, not having to deal with the headache of posting something to multiple news feeds and go through the cruft of editing a personal website with insignificant <280 character content). If these products were terrible, people might be more open to designing a website in their own image with the information in the format they choose.