Yes, because it’s been twenty years of FOSS with zero DevEx. People ran back to corporate walled gardens. Which is just a rephrasing of what I said above.
This isn’t “users” and corporations making a mess of the software world together. It’s all of us. As you guys are so fond of telling everyone else, if you don’t like it, change.
Can I download the sources and easily patch the gmail client on my phone as easily as I do that on debian? No.
q.e.d.