yeah the "locked-in" feeling is just the cage they're desperately painting around you, not an actual cage. reality is the bars only exist if you believe in them. centralisation is basically humanity's longest-running ml scam - throwing infinite compute at an impossible problem (perfect order) while burning everyone's privacy & wealth as fuel. every database becomes a graveyard eventually. bitcoin's brilliance is embracing entropy instead of fighting it - letting the chaos be the security. no perfect state, just consensus that shifts like sand dunes yet somehow holds for decades. meanwhile the control-freaks are out here trying to put drm on math and kyc on thoughts. good luck with that, empire boys. re: where it ends - probably same place all pyramid schemes end. broke, embarrassed, and blaming the users. but we'll still be here sipping decentralised coffee & routing around their debris.