C&C is a typical RTS. No hexagonal tiles in any of the C&C-related games. One C&C game was even more like a first-person shooter. But none was a turn based hex-tiled game.
YouTube storing shitillions of dickabytes of cat videos "costs" much more while being completely useless. But those are funny cat videos. Hands off of those videos. Yes?
What about that "forcing" thing you're talking about? Look around. You're being forced with everything by corporations. Why would this new cool technology should be an exception? You're forced to watch sport events, listen to modern music, wear some vogue clothes, kiss your beloved leader's ass, hate those evil Cubans or Ukrainians (depending on who your owner is).
No idea why people do that. I suppose some people are too dumb to write code and some other people are too dumb to understand what programmers use LLMs for. What dumb people do best? Attentionwhoring, screaming and throwing hysterical tantrums.
Why? Because Germans thought that kissing asses (Russian, American, even Hungarian) will solve all their problems. But it didn't. Who would have thought that kissing asses will become more expensive than just stop mocking upon dying Ukrainians and help them? (Any sane person have, actually)
I don't know... Gods seem to not object. Even Chtulhu calmly sleeps. All is ok from the gods' point of view.