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Conversely, services that give access to leave/clone via an open protocol like git are the last ones you should worry about lock-in with...right?

Unless you get too comfortable with the services' tertiary benefits, and that's not lock in — that's just comfort.

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Having all of your issue tracking, docs wiki, build pipelines and more be reliant on a platform Ian or just comfort, it’s lock-in. If you ask a company “can’t we just switch from gitlab to github? Or the reverse, you’ll get a million reasons why it’s a huge task, because everything outside of the repo itself isn’t easily transferred.

That is what happens when huge chuck of devs expect to use software as free beer, while the people actually writing those tools need to figure out ways to pay their bills.

A big reason why we are back into timesharing, the free beer is only the thin terminal stuff.

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