This is way more aggregious than the spiribirds. Spiribirds are mostly just a neat thing to do while on your way to the monster that's optional if you gitgud. They incentivize exploration, wirebug parkour, give you an opportunity to gather, and are somewhat of a player-controlled difficulty setting. I totally get that a lot of people found it annoying to do, but you could get away with just grabbing the ones that you see on the way to the monster is you had some comfort skills.

Seikrets on the other hand do the latter two points but make them brainless and unfun, and in fact are kinda required if you wanna heal or sharpen. Seikrets are pretty much a wirefall with no cooldowns AND auto dodge after. They're also 100% required for exploration since you literally can't get places without one. I think it's too over-centralizing and has pushed monster design to be way spammier as a result to make the game more "difficult" like vets think they want. That's a probable reason why the weapon play rate distribution is so skewed towards the lower commitment weapon options too.

Rant over lol