I agree there's a significant subjective element to the assessment. whether the subjective assessments match reality despite the underinformation is where we appear to disagree on. I don't think it's that people misperceive or exaggerate the upsides, it's that the downsides are kept largely out of sight, they have long term consequences that are hard to grasp and that are introduced piecemeal, and they're bundled together with upsides while choices that separate them are suppressed. all these manipulation artifices wouldn't be needed if people actually considered it a net positive.