One missing element is being backed by enormous amounts of VC funding seeking to create a silo-ed ecosystem that can be leveraged to extract rents from people who want to collaboratively work.
> The classic example of rent-seeking, according to Robert Shiller, is that of a feudal lord who installs a chain across a river that flows through his land and then hires a collector to charge passing boats a fee (or rent of the section of the river for a few minutes) to lower the chain. There is nothing productive about the chain or the collector. The lord has made no improvements to the river and is not adding value in any way, directly or indirectly, except for himself. All he is doing is finding a way to make money from something that used to be free
You might think people are foolish to pay to use the canal when they could use the river for free, but that's a different argument.