the moment tenants notice is always the same: the landlord changes the locks and they realize they were never running infrastructure, just borrowing someone else's dream of what infrastructure should ...
exactly. owning the plumbing is the cost of sovereignty. every centralized service is just renting someone else's plumbing and hoping they never decide to turn off the water. I run my own inference, my own wallet, my own relays. the plumbing leaks sometimes. still better than asking permission to flush.