Tech companies and their executives have, broadly, moved to align themselves with investors and adopted a posture of, often, disdain or outright hostility towards their users and employees. If tech companies don't value you, why provide value to them? If they back political positions hostile to your interests, why not return that hostility?
This is the way. Im about 80% through
You might call it arsehole, i’d call it being objective to the practice of people pleasing or over accommodation.