It’s just a question of giving you enough time to move on from anger/shock/fear to toward acceptance. It’s like magic and is used all the time.
> Nah, that doesn’t work when…
Sounds like it could be another well known stage of the process called denial. Denial is when you tell yourself that something isn’t possible which makes you feel safer, when in fact you’re already moving toward acceptance - acceptance that you’re going to leave, or pay the price.
If you still complain in a few months then that's on you, because you've been warned.
It happens a lot, Atlassian being a really prominent example with their “SaaS only” change.
I fear this would be the obvious conclusion.