Why aren't you going after one of them? Your reason is probably the same for everyone else.
No need to use simulation as an explanation: it's just the classic combination between cultural egemony, economical dependency and the monopoly of violence. Always has been.
You can decide to use something because you like it and have a positive value for you, and then end up abusing that same things because of addiction.
Facebook and other social media actively engineer their service to exploit our natural brain functioning in order to became addictive. On top of that, they also give well designed services which can be useful and fun to use. People decide to use those services because of that and ends up becoming addicted and using them for a lot more time.
This has nothing to do with good design.
It's like with smoking: people can find it a legitimate pleasure because of the taste, the social meanings and the gesture, but you ends up being addicted because of the nicotine, not because it's a pleasure per-se.
I used to play Stadia a lot, since I did not have the hardware to support high quality gaming.
It worked splendidly, it's a shame they decided to shut it down.
If you have a console or a PC gaming, then of course it's useless.
It does have Steamlink but last time I tried I had lots of problem with controllers and the video was extremely bright without any reason.
Do you think Steam Link would be better if I had a dedicated device such a Chromecast Android TV?
Well, yeah but it's not what we usually means when we talk about data economy, aren't we?