As they say in Italian "If my Grandmother had wheels she would have been a bike"

Sure... that's an "interesting" premise but we live in our World, where a lot of American companies are structured the way they are by design. US companies get money from venture capital. That capital is solely designed to dominate. VC money is NOT a loan you get from a bank where you provide a collateral. No VC money is targeting 1 thing : market dominance and 10x returns. Your mom&pop shop will never get VC money because they never say they'll corner the croissant market, rather they say might sell some baked goods to some people in your limited neighborhood. VC money will NEVER accept such a deal because it might eventually get 2x, at best, and the tiny shop does not even need a lot of capital, just enough for the oven, few people, etc. Peanuts in terms of investment money.

So... American companies are not "evil" because they want to or because a lack of luck. No, rather they become so because of the very structure money is made in the US. The Silicon Valley isn't special because of Stanford or Berkeley and so many smart grad students. No it's special because it pulls people from the entire World who dream of dominating markets. It then either select them or transform then select... and in the end you get the same kind of companies with the same kind of strategy with the same kind of money doing the same thing : domination by lowering price, cornering a marketing, raising price, enshittifying. Why? Because it works. It's a proven business model. Right now it works on ads, and thus privacy... but if another model comes, it'll use that.

TL;DR: it's not perfect but it sure beats most if not all of BigTech depending of course on your needs.