[TeMPOraL]

They want to lock you inside their ecosystems because that's how they can make more money off you. Simple as that.

If your mission is really to improve the world, giving your users access to raw data and freedom in controlling the device is no-brainer. But that rarely happens, because improving human condition is just a marketing ploy. So instead you get cloud nonsense that isn't really designed to serve you.

Most consumer hardware companies (and that includes especially printer vendors) could do the world a big favour by having courage to admit that whatever companion software they'll write will likely be crap, and leave that to the community.