B-but the pretty colors and design!
They don't care. Never have. They are happy to give away their soul to Google if it means it's a little more convenient/pretty.
They are not in lemmy because of fediverse/descentralization/privacy/foss, they are here just because they don't want to be in reddit.
Maybe not as much, it would seem that way, but the same thing happened with Sync last month and people were defending the app, ads & google because the app is prettier, more convenient or familiar.