The root cause is still the rules that allow the abuse. It's lazy on all our part to blame Google et al when it is really the rules that force them to do this.
Nothing I said disagrees with that. But if you are on the side of "don't hate the player" you have to feel that way about all abuses of the system. You don't get to pick and choose when you take that stance.
See the '5 whys' for why we should look deeper: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/5_Whys