They very clearly had a reason.

poverty mindset. We can make more books, and now these copies contribute to a corpus of knowledge that far more people benefit from

Wasteful mindset. They don't need the books, they need the data. They should never have been printed if they were going to he destroyed.

I use Claude without paying, that's a benefit

And "And only the owner can make more books" is trivially false

Keep crying about this nothingburger