It's not the sentiment; it's the automatic assumption that the receiver is in need of being repaired or cured of some perceived flaw, and that the giver is in a poition to sell them that cure. If good wishes are all that are intended, why not simply express them and leave the sales pitch out of it?
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'
