I'm getting the urge to DNF it , should I push through?

This is a first world problem for sure, and apologies in advance for a bit of a rant 🤣 but it ticks me off a lot when this happens when we all love our books so much.

I was planning on slowly over time buying a series of books (The Game Changer Series by Rachel Reid) one at most per month to help save myself some money and read one book at a time. I thought this a pretty safe bet as it's pretty much the most popular book series at the moment so they were highly unlikely to be hard to get ahold of over the year.

I thought it reasonable to assume that they wouldn't do a cover change for a long while as these versions have just come out in January..... then they decided to put an unnecessary, massive, permanent, printed-onto-cover 'sticker' to advertise the Heated Rivalry TV show, only a few weeks after the initial ones without them on came out..... WHY?!

I then decided to get the series before all the copies without these permanent stickers were no longer available anymore. Yes, I could still have waited to buy them and just had the stickers on them, but I really didn't want them. They look awful to me and would make me a little disappointed to see them everytime I picked them up to read, especially when I know what they look like without them. I know it's not a big deal in the grand scheme of things, but it's just so bizarre to me that publishes do this!

Does anyone know why publishers do this? The only thing I can think of is publishers trying saving in labour costs for someone to physically put removable stickers on them, but a lot of popular books get removable stickers on them. I used to do it myself when I was a bookseller myself a little while ago (and I hated it with every fibre of my being! 🤣).

I feel it not only ruins the cover but is pretty insulting to the cover artists, and it seems unnecessary when an actual removable sticker would do fine to advertise the show? Or print an extra page in the back of the book itself to advertise it!

Also, why print the ones without the permanent stickers in the first place if you were going to print them only to be irrelevant/obsolete in a few weeks time? I'd understand it more if they were doing the print run with stickers for lower costs if they didn't print two separate print runs, one with, one without.

If you are going to print both types anyway, with permanent stickers and without, why not allow customers to have the choice of which version they'd prefer, rather than being forced into getting the ones with stickers because the ones without are now suddenly finite?...... I guess that's why they do it, force sales of ones without stickers because they know people don't want them!

What does everyone else think of this? Does it bother you too?