There's a charitable way to view it: there are a lot of human endeavours. You can spend a few centuries trying to classify all of them and put them in to law, or you allow "legitimate interests".
I would be more charitable if this was not the exploit used to make you hunt for 30 or more switches 2 levels deep in a consent dialog to avoid being tracked forever across the entire internet if you ever misclick one on any site visit.
There's a charitable way to view it: there are a lot of human endeavours. You can spend a few centuries trying to classify all of them and put them in to law, or you allow "legitimate interests".