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We're in a period where the tools, agentic systems in this case, are gated by large companies.
This is like if IBM or Cray in the 60s through 90s only allowed rental of mainframes that they owned, and they can cut you off.
That wasn't the case then, but just like Google shutting down the father's entire Google account cause the pediatric doctor wanted a photo of the kid who had a rash to see if they needed to be brought into the ER or a cream, then got his phone (Google Fi), email (Gmail), and all his paperwork backups (drive) cut off... When you don't own the infrastructure you live at the whims of things you can not even appeal to.
This is a story about people and companies putting their entire business workflows in the hands of big tech who really don't care about anyone.
So, AI drama aside, the moment your life or business is fully dependent on an unreliable partner, this is what happens.