That sounds like deliberate deception. That's far shittier than being up front. They should have made a PS account optional. Cyberpunk does this, you don't need an account to launch the game.

It's completely unnecessary, PlayStation accounts aren't available in many countries which would make the game inaccessible to people who already bought it if it's mandatory, and Sony has averaged a data breach every two years for the past 15 years so people don't want to give them any personal data.

man I think people can take things too far and act like drama queens sometimes but yeah, forcing another unnecessary account onto people is enshitification