I have to question in what world one would need "the latest mouse" every year. The only reason is if Logitech makes such a crap mouse that it starts to fall apart, thus necessitating a new one.
The only other avenue is that the mouse just gets more and more bloated with additional "features" year-on-year.
The principle isn't the worst, but the implications are less than ideal
It doesn't, but thousands of people all downloading 3-4GB from the same site will put more load on the site. Torrents avoid this issue by downloading little bits from lots of different peers
Yes, a lot of creativity is fuelled by inspiration. One can't create much in a bubble. However: I could draw a rkbvrpoi, and my human intuition enables me to consider what such a thing might look like. I can make it up and make something feasible of it. I can give it a history, I can place it in culture (or maybe it is itself a culture), and I can do whatever I want. Yes, that requires some level of inspiration, and drawing from what I've observed and experienced would make the rkbvrpoi a lot more believable - if that's my goal.
A so-called AI can't do any of that, and even if it could, it would be meaningless and soulless.
It's able to apply those things because it's read millions of sci-fi stories, and can make an educated guess. It's also able to produce an image od an astronaut on a horse because it's seen lots of images of astronauts and horses, and people sitting on horses, so it can once again make an educated guess. I don't think it's right to call that creativity.
I pay for it because I thought it was a trustworthy service that had earnt my money. Instead, if they continue with stuff like this then I'll go back to not trusting subscription services again.
There's a similar thing you can do - if you're in a room of people, just start chuckling to yourself about nothing. Keep doing it every so often, and all going well, the whole room will be in uproarious laughter for reasons they're entirely unaware of!
But where do you draw the line? Don't get me wrong, I am against the idea of, as you say, "excessive wealth extraction". But what classes as excessive? If I ran an independent Etsy shop making cards, and I had an 80% profit margin, is that stealing?
There's a brand called Ko-Lee Go Noodles which market themselves as three styles in one. I think you can do soup, stir fry, or just season them and eat them dry like crisps.
I would probably say fast, efficient, high-performance, or optimal, depending on context. Or just "it performs well". But I recognise I'm in the vast minority - just one of those new words that bugs me now but I'll eventually accept
I have to question in what world one would need "the latest mouse" every year. The only reason is if Logitech makes such a crap mouse that it starts to fall apart, thus necessitating a new one.
The only other avenue is that the mouse just gets more and more bloated with additional "features" year-on-year.
The principle isn't the worst, but the implications are less than ideal