oh man, that was rough. Your story reminded a group of people who should report here — The "Green QR code" app that Chinese government deploys in the name of COVID to track and surveillance people. I even saw a tiktok (douyin) video that showcase one of the developer, praising how young they are and how handsome they are. The comment section of the video is a different scene entirely.
But the same time, if they didn't develop it, someone else will. So it is hard to put the blame on them specifically.
I choose Better to put in the title as an example because it is the worst offender - it is so vague, better what? It is waste of money to buy better.com as a startup, there are better, more efficient way to spend that startup fund.