So first off I never said I agreed with those doctors' reasoning and love that I'm getting downvoted despite it being a reply to a comment literally exemplifying what I'm talking about, and several other people are commenting things among similar lines.
It happens and I don't agree with it, but I totally understand why they do it. General practitioners and family practice doctors see dozens to hundreds of patients every week, and they get maybe half an hour with each patient and they know that out of the 300 people they see, maybe two or three of them will actually commit to the lifestyle changes they need to control their condition. So instead they optimize for what's going to work for the majority of their patients and skip straight to medication.
It happens and I don't agree with it, but I totally understand why they do it. General practitioners and family practice doctors see dozens to hundreds of patients every week, and they get maybe half an hour with each patient and they know that out of the 300 people they see, maybe two or three of them will actually commit to the lifestyle changes they need to control their condition. So instead they optimize for what's going to work for the majority of their patients and skip straight to medication.