Yes, that also annoys me! Especially when it's not even my phone but for example a third party service that is asking me to do something in their interest and not mine. Every time I click on one of those "No, thank you" buttons I mumble to myself a correction of "No, fuck you".

I suppose there are more people bothered by having to click a rude 'no', maybe?

EDIT: also, being bothered by it is maybe more the case for people who understand computers (at least somewhat).

Whilst I agree with you on the communication from you to your phone.

However the phone is never speaking to you. It’s the designer(s).

I’m not sure why the illusion of the technology speaking to us is so important. I guess because humans anthropomorphise everything.

Slightly ironic that this makes us loose sight of the fact that we are actually communicating with humans.

In this whole conversation it seems this point is lost.

I think it was originally used because A/B testing said there's a 1% increased "Yes" conversion rate when having to thank the company while declining, and then everyone started to copy Bigtech as always.