Mostly because the FOSS community doesn’t have a single point of leadership that is maniacally focused on becoming a total monopoly.

And that’s a good thing

'It used to be this and I want it to be this way, hold my hand for an hour while telling me its not this way anymore

Yeah, but that already happens every time Microsoft does a major version “upgrade”.

Embrace, extend, extinguish will accelerate.

Of course, it always is.

But a lot of this type of enshittification can be difficult to learn about without getting your hands on thw product first. Especially if it’s a new model.

the CRA website? I’ve been able to access it on Firefox (through Linux) without being hassled.

Same here.

Maybe they’ve got some privacy plug-ins that are preventing the CRA website from functioning properly?

In the past, I have had to add my bank and some government websites to my whitelist

The problem is, you don’t always know they will do this until after you pay your money for them.