You influence the public opinion on fossil fuels by spreading information about climate change, pollution and negative health effects
if you are playing dirty, telling them digging up those evil black liquid out can anger the gods would work too
The small government means they want the government to not stop them from doing 1 very specific state rights
not if the QR parser has some exploit that let you do RCE from the QR code
still very likely a worthwhile investment. It would also bring cost reductions with a bunch of automations such scaffolding could bring.
Then they would just simply stop giving out free steam keys for off platform purchases. Depends on how many people buy from publisher site because they get to keep their games in a single library, it might end up with the game publishers getting less revenue overall.