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Because they're more expensive and inferior? There's a reason that ISRO's only launches in like the last 5 years are domestic launches, and two launches for a competitor to Starlink that needed an alternative after Russia invaded Ukraine (and ended up launching twice as many satellites with SpaceX regardless).

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What the hell are you talking about? In the past five years ISRO has launched 177 satellites for 19 different countries. I remember watching one for Singapore just last week.

https://pib.gov.in/PressReleasePage.aspx?PRID=1883677

How is it inferior? It’s the same orbital insertion and they have a near 100% success rate.

I think some of the larger payloads cannot be launched by ISRO at the moment

The vast majority of those satellites are basically a joke. They're all tiny cubesats, and the entirety of their commercial space program in that period could probably fit on a single Falcon 9: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_foreign_satellites_lau...

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