Many courseware producers' business models involve signing organisations up for training course content which then needs to be distributed to a multitude of different companies - each with a potentially-different Learning Management System. SCORM, being the lowest common denominator, feature-free, widely-compatible format for content means it's the go-to file-type that's used to distribute courses: all organisations can use it for learning and training... badly. Not using SCORM shrinks the market size so the primary concern is the authoring company's bottom line - not better learning.