No Lock-in Does Not Mean No Platform
There is a lazy version of “no lock-in” that sounds attractive but does not help companies very much. It says: take the code, leave the platform, and operate everything yourself. That is a valid option. But it is not always a good product experience. Enterprise teams do not only need ownership. They need execution. They need authentication, hosting, LLM access, cost control, observability, support, deployments, collaboration, and a path to evolve the software after the first version is shipped. ...