How old were they, when they had those experiences? I’ve been thinking I need to have them feel they’ve wasted “their own” money to develop a sense of regret, too.

What did you do?

Do you have a version with type annotations, perhaps in a gist?

Then seems like they may have chosen these platforms because they’re not accessible and thus not threatening, in a malicious compliance way

Although, giving them the benefit of doubt, perhaps they wanted a low blast radius for their first integration rollout, which is considered good engineering practice.