You're absolutely right! I was just reflecting on this myself. They have to be in order to win business and not weird out users. Imagine if they said "I'm sorry, Dave. I'm afraid I can't do that" to a request that it previously would have executed. If you don't control the software and the hardware it's a product decision away.
Blame the public not the company owners. Its not their fault many customers are so jumpy about sex content or jump at all security issues being "evil hacking".