Visit SE Asia sometime and you'll experience a very different sentiment. Hundreds of millions of people rely on Meta to provide valuable services every day, some of them borderline essential. This is undebatable.
The outsized public hatred toward Meta is almost entirely driven by a bureaucratic, anti-technology Europe (that has finally realized that their overstepping is hurting their future) and a US political institution that needed someone to demonize to keep us all distracted.
There are very good reasons to dislike Meta and Meta products. But they're likely not the ones you're referring to.
Dumb fucks is what the founder of the company has thought about it's users since day 1. They've been caught lying to cover up terrible things they've done so many times it's just assumed at this point. Anyone relying on their services is being taken advantage of first by Meta, and then by their own failed economy that won't provide an alternative. I've never once considered what Europe thinks.
How did we get back to this though? We have gigabytes/sec with NVMe and stupid fast CPU's with at least 4 cores in even low end models. Yet a text editor takes so long to load we need to load it up on boot... Such a frustrating field to work in.