Under the Bork standard, to which skystarman is alluding, rising price is the only concern. "Consumer harm" doctrine.

This was invented from whole cloth by Robert Bork, Richard Posner, and Aaron Director, at the University of Chicago, as part of a decades-long project and organisation to redraft US antitrust policy. It was devastatingly effective.

It also has little if any basis in the legislative rationale of original antitrust legislation in the US.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Antitrust_Paradox

Thanks for clarifying! That "consumer harm" is a term of art here, and not a catch-all for all downsides the consumer experiences is exactly the kind of confusion I was hoping to clear up.

I apologize to whoever I apparently offended by being curious.