I'm not sure if you're saying that what I'm saying is a distortion of the situation, or that the compromise represents monopolistic distortion of the market. I

I'm not sure if you're saying that what I'm saying is a distortion of the situation, or that the compromise represents monopolistic distortion of the market. I think the former? If so, that's a much stronger reading than I intended; I wasn't saying "this is what's happening" but rather "this is a thing that happens in general, it may be part of the explanation here, I don't know how to really pick it apart."