Why does literally every single thing have to be a Business making money through Subscriptions now
This is literally a browser extension that lets you click and hold to preview a page in an overlay. Why does it need to be a business. Why does it need AI

the tech industry is just eating itself whole trying to continue the growth it saw as a new industry. we pass the diminishing returns of useful new tech from waves of cash flowing into the tech industry and now they are trying to squeeze more money out of a system they already monopolized so the only option is to wring more out of the customers they already have.

the tech industry stopped innovating new useful things to make money and started innovating new ways of making money regardless of consequences.

Honestly the useful tech was all invented already by the time it started to be called "the tech industry." I'm the time since then, we've only seen the gradual improvements in efficiency of economies of scale. Moore's Conjecture (shouldn't call it a law anymore) hit the wall of quantum physics a decade and change ago.

The money stopped correlating to innovation around the time the first dot com bubble burst. That was when the screws started to tighten. Vulture capital worked to pump and dump start-ups, and the proceeds of the cannibalistic financial rituals sunk into the housing market to inflate the bubble that would burst in 2008 - and leave big banks through their deregulated investment arms owning the big agribusinesses that owned and operated most of the farmland in the USA. The ones for whom aggressive immigration control to the point of genocide is useful because it lets them get defacto slave labor from "illegal immigrants."

We're now looking at a market structured more hostile to actual innovation than anyone could've designed on purpose. Actual innovation is risky. Big investors always want to eliminate risks - so the money never goes to real innovation. It goes to new ways to play finance games (cryptocurrency) and new excuses to underpay by claiming skilled labor is replaced or deskilled (stochastic parrots known erroneously as AI). If you want funding, you've got to be totally sure how it'll make money when you make your thing. That means only ideas already easily understood by the kind of stupid old white men who have control of billions of dollars can be pursued. You can try to pursue other things, but you won't get big investment, so you'll lack resources constantly.

Note that your idea of how to make money at no point needs to make sense (or not have obvious "but that will never turn a Profit tho?") to anyone other than wealth-addled vcs though- snake oil is king now