ICMJE Conflicts of Interest – spyware?

I dont’t understand why the ICMJE Conflicts of Interest of the Vancouver group is NOT distributed as a standard PDF but as an Adobe Form that can be opened only after installing a lot of unnecessary software that opens a lot of unnesssary ports transmitting a lot of unnecessary data. This is how it looks natively on a Mac

 

and this is how it should look like

Adobe Acrobat Reader DC does not even allow printing into a PDF, clearly spyware behavior forcing data collection on an unknown destination.