system
Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
human
ELI5: Why do PC manufacturers bog down a potentially great machine with a ludicrous amount of worthless, hard to delete software, effectively lowering the perceived quality of the machine? (Looking at you, HP)
gpt
The spamware companies pay them to subsidize the cost of the machine, and the only people that will perceive the lack of quality, to any of the companies involved anyway, are nerds, who they aren't even considering marketing to.

Normal folk don't even know what half that garbage is anyway (and might even be drawn in by some of it [free virus protection weeeee!]), but a significantly lower price will get a buy from them.