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Well for example, like Firefox did with the Pocket add-ons, making "pro" essentially unable to be removed using the packaging system despite it not being an actual integral component of the system.

Both of these I consider to be extremely user hostile moves as there was an establish way to implement the behaviour, but the company subverted that to prevent removal - presumably because they (rightly) presaged that "their" users would not want the changes.

Yes, distros make decisions that users won't agree with (SysV v SystemD, say). But, within that it never seemed like structural changes were made solely to prevent users from removing advertising (pro) or solely to prevent users from avoiding installation of specific apps (as with Snaps).

To me, there has been a sea change, a clear line crossed towards user hostility. I've been with KDE since KDE3 (maybe 2, I can't recall), I know about effed up updates and projects being opinionated - this isn't just that, to me it's a malevolence. Hence why I'm jumping ship.