> It's just "lol, why pay when you can download for free".

Well for starters because the research shows that reading on a screen literally makes you retarded.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-023-36256-4

https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/691462

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-022-05605-0