It’s very hard to separate profit maximization from investment/progress/impact maximization.

Handicapping the former inevitably handicaps the latter.

That might be ok in a backwater area where speed of progress wasn’t vital. But AI today is not that.

Maximizing resources is an important dimension of maximizing progress in any fast paced & expensive endeavor.

And resources, to be sustainably obtained, require offering comparable or better returns than your competitors.