Theoretically you will be able to just run your Pods somewhere else, obviously, but if that was all Anthos gave you, then you were not in the target demographic

Theoretically you will be able to just run your Pods somewhere else, obviously, but if that was all Anthos gave you, then you were not in the target demographic anyway. I am willing to bet, although I have not tried Anthos, that the subset of stuff from your deployment process, identity handling, etc. that will "just work" if you try to move from Anthos to some random vanilla Kubernetes offering will be far too small and that you will practically speaking be locked in to the Anthos platform.