What I find most amazing is we actually figured out how important interoperability is back when Adobe PDF and Microsoft Word were proprietary formats. Decades ago everyone realized how messed up it was that these files were hostage and subject to the whims of their parent companies, that access to them was contingent on many factors outside our control, that long-term access to them was a massive risk.

Fast-forward to today and we are stuck in "walled gardens" all over again with more restrictions than Microsoft and Adobe ever dreamed of, our devices are hostage, our usage is heavily taxed, our perception of pricing is skewed, our payment options all feed back to a single beneficiary, and regulators seem almost powerless to end it.