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It's the system working exactly as designed. "you, too, could have all this if you only worked hard enough. Now that you've spent 2-3 hours of your weekend off at the movies, get back to work, slave"
To be fair, Transformers was always product placement. Not just "full of" it, but "entirely built of" it. They designed a line of toys first and made up a story to help sell them afterward.
The Iron Man movies were chronic for this, Audi really made them significantly worse.
The single worst example was I Robot.
Nah, it's nothing so subtly evil. People go to movies to get taken out of their day-to-day lives. No one wants to see the protagonists struggle with the same issues they struggle with. Struggle is fine, just don't want to see my struggle.
That may as well be the case as I found it mostly in US movies.