I think it's just a case of
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enshittification after a company that did something well gets bought out.
Refinitiv used to provide quality data but it seems like that has suffered since they were bought out by the London Stock Exchange Group. I saw another complaint about them recently.
What was once a top-notch service providing data to Yahoo, Etrade, IB, Schwab, etc... has been subsumed by LSEG's bureaucracy as evidenced by how long it took them to fix their mistake with the institutional ownership data.

