My friend, you can't come in here slinging assumptions. We pay our interns. Preeti has a rundown elsewhere in this thread (https://www.reddit.com/r/VALORANT/comments/jpakh6/im_the_intern_who_made_the_reaver_finisher_and/gbduiy8/).
Internships are about high-potential students who can't take on full-time careers until they've graduated. Instead, they get a hands-on sampling of what a role at their chosen company would be like. I have seen and heard of interns who want to drop out and just work at a company they interned at, but a degree is useful and most of the time a company says, "hey you did great work, when you graduate, we'd like to hire you."
That's the goal of an internship program. It's not about exploiting up-and-comers for free work, it's about intelligently sourcing for really high potential talent, giving them an opportunity to try cool hands-on work, and then hoping they'll come back once they graduate.
The sign of a good internship program is a team who actively thinks about a breadth of high-impact experiences they can give the intern so that the intern can understand if they want to do this work (at this company), and the company sees this is someone who can do high-quality work.
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