I suspect as a consequence of single-use plastic bans, the hotel no longer supplies the little peel-top individual serves of Vegemite.

Instead there’s a bowl filled with the stuff, and a teaspoon with which you’re expected to somehow scoop a scant couple of cubic centimetres, AND THEN get it off the spoon onto your plate in some act of defiance against the laws of viscosity, ALL THE WHILE keeping the non-toast items on your plate more than tripping distance from the mound on the way back to your table.

It’s probably not malicious compliance on the part of the hotel, but if they wanted to perform malicious compliance, they’d do this.