Thanks, this is an excellent example. You could actually call this a symbiotic lock-in. I once read an excellent post on how SEO (despite being a gray area for

Thanks, this is an excellent example. You could actually call this a symbiotic lock-in. I once read an excellent post on how SEO (despite being a gray area for search engines) entrenches Google's market share because many SEO practitioners specialize in it. If your ecosystem has become so specialized that most well-adapted users are bots, you have a problem (or not, if you can monetize bots).