You can't have it both ways.

If their value-add was miniscule then they should be trivial to replace.

If it's a struggle to replace them then that's the value they were adding.

No, the struggle is fully manufactured by this rug pull. If I had known this was going to happen when I was setting up my infra I could've used any number of other alternatives, including just building them myself, at little to no extra effort. Now I have to waste time migrating off of these.