It's not but it's all so tiresome to explain why. Also, those (hypothetical) towers have no ROI because they only serve poor people. Starlink covers the entire world so parts of the world can subsidize service to other parts.
Many places have incompetent government that can't/won't build proper infrastructure. For example, the US has allocated around $50B for rural broadband and almost nothing has been built.
Somebody said people were posting images of QR codes that contained (links to?) CSAM. But instead of using a QR code decoder, it sounds like Discord used perceptual hashing or AI to detect and ban all QR-like images.
I get the impression European companies are like this. In general if a company can't be reorganized/dismantled that makes it worth so little (or negative) that no one will acquire it.
SGI accidentally copied a few lines of IRIX code into Linux and it was removed as soon as the copying was discovered. I don't know if any other copied Unix code has ever been documented.
External power supplies make UL certification cheaper; that's the reason. I hate power bricks but I have so many on my desk that one more makes no difference. The Beelink version has an internal PSU BTW.