I think that while we were tolerant of it years ago, I think that gamers as a whole have reached a tipping point so to speak. We're just at the limit of what further silliness we are going to tolerate. If things like having to sign into Steam and then Ubisoft or Steam and then Origin because you bought a Ubisoft or EA game on Steam were introduced today, I think that they would receive an equal amount of pushback. Years ago people were all about "cutting the cord" and moving to streaming; nowadays many of us hate streaming even more than we used to hate cable. Basically, we have collectively as a society learned that if there's a way to do everything in the most greedy, anti-consumer way possible, companies are going to do it that way. I know that I am way more cynical and suspicious of anything a company does than I was just 10 years ago.
"The assumption that animals are without rights, and the illusion that our treatment of them has no moral significance, is a positively outrageous example of Western crudity and barbarity. Universal compassion is the only guarantee of morality."