Marketing a hell of a drug. You can have Apple advertise Apple One in settings and people don't bat an eye. Ad for M365 in the Start Menu though and it's "start menu now showing ads" articles all over. It's all a part of OS tribal warfare to turn consumers into free marketing and advocates.
All Apple devices with a store have ads, sponsored listings putting what you didn't search for at the top, even Apple TV which most people say they like because it doesn't have ads.
anyway, there's a reason I told myself to stop participating in any of this discourse.