You’d have been licking your lips way sooner because that’s completely legal in the US. In fact increasing the switching cost either monetarily or in other way

You’d have been licking your lips way sooner because that’s completely legal in the US. In fact increasing the switching cost either monetarily or in other ways (e.g., time sink) is a very common way of locking customers in. That’s why cancellation fees are so common in many industries.