@futurebird I think it's indicative of the effect that the tech industry has on all the other industries around it because it's become so ingrained into the fabric of business.The techbros want to control the means of computation and production, which has a cascading effect into all the other industries that supply materials for it.
I think you might be right that maybe that wasn't the intended plan initially, but I do think it became the plan once somebody realized what they were sitting on. The hyper-wealthy have been playing the long game for decades and this is just the latest way that they can monopolize the means of production.
Landlords gonna landlord and seek rent wherever they possibly can because it's never really been about the consumers.