Laws (and crimes) and consumer behaviors are governed by popular concensus of what we, the body politic, are willing to tolerate - neither are absolutes, and both are subject to change.

A realistic analogy would make my point less clearly than an exaggerated cartoon.

If the consumer market, or the corporations that govern it, decide that grave robbery is to be tolerated as a for-profit adventure..

well, we've very few tools with with to oppose them.

(See also: the collapse of the biosphere)

Fortunately, in America at least, It's likely your loved ones lacked the medical insurance necessary to cover the cost of dental fillings.

I think they were trying to make an argument regarding ethics and morality and didn't do the best job by throwing in a strawman argument. That being said, television networks literally do it every day. That they're doing it is arguably unethical, but if you're expecting ethics and morality from a megacorp, especially Micro$oft, you're a fool.

Everything else you said stands. Don't use the product. Don't give the company your money. Nobody's forcing you to consume the media. If you do, don't complain, you're the fool who bought a game with ads.

I might agree that it's not morally wrong for them to add advertisements to milk more money out of people, but it's definitely artistically wrong in that they are hugely compromising the thing they are making just for extra money.

And one might further argue that it's morally wrong in that adding the advertisements is going to make the world a more frustrating, enshittified, dumbed-down place, just by a little bit.

Maybe a more apt comparison than "what if a Nazi killed you" or "what if somebody stole your mother's teeth" would be what if you owned a food company and filled your food with sticks and rocks to save money. People would not be obligated to buy it, but it's definitely wrong and doesn't do anybody any good.