Maybe this is just me being a physicist, but I would have trouble applying the notion of escrow to anything that does not obey a law of conservation... “Put th

Maybe this is just me being a physicist, but I would have trouble applying the notion of escrow to anything that does not obey a law of conservation... “Put that idea in escrow”—I assume I have to write it down first? “Put our incrementing page view count in escrow”—uh...? “Put my time in escrow”—how on earth am I going to get it back? Similarly “escrowing your software dependencies”, hard to interpret if I didn't know the context. Whereas “vendoring” is similarly opaque but immediately recognizable as jargon and has made it into tools (`go mod vendor` and `deno vendor` for example).