Had to account hop as fedia.io is down...

The intent isn't necessarily predatory. To explain it from business/product side, it boils down to two options:

• we keep the user's account and they can easily log in once they're back and continue spending money through us
• or we can delete the account at which point the user will think "hey if I have to re-register anyway, why not go to a competitor", losing out on that business

Remember, that level of any corporation operates on a KPI based approach. They don't see people, they don't see individuals, they see profit per user, they see user retention after a long term break, they see user losses to competitors because "their company has features X Y and Z, while ours don't".

That's why regulations are a joke. These very same people will go on about how preventing gambling addiction and general negative effects of gambling is good, then do the polar opposite. This is a big part of the reason why I left. Zero accountability of the people who make the decision while us peons were forced to do biannual compliance training and other BS, even though we never interacted with customers...