Well Chevy is the lowest tier of GM’s offerings. So yes. They torture you in whatever small ways will get you to buy the same car from a more expensive brand that they also own and has all the same features standardized because, either they’re safety features that it would look really bad to not offer, or they don’t actually cost so much to implement that a competitor couldn’t offer the same package for less.

I have the same theory (if you can even call it a theory, a capitalist would call it “just business”) about affordable apartments being intentionally shitty not for real cost reasons but just to punish people for choosing the less costly option. It also makes the expensive option look artificially better while not actually being that much more expensive to the capital owner, but we all know that advertising something as “luxury” isn’t actually about providing “luxury”.

Put more bluntly, it’s class warfare.