The case for paying depended on a repeat player with a reputation to protect. Seventy-three new entrants in a year removes exactly that.
An ecosystem-wide long tail alongside sector concentration. Both are true, and it complicates the corpus’s own argument.
Every playbook assumes an event. Pre-positioning has none — the adversary is deliberately behaving like an administrator.
In a lawful market, removing the dominant supplier reduces volume because capacity is expensive to replace. Here the capacity is software.
The federal files were a twentieth of the dump. The rest belonged to everyone else the supplier served.
The stopgap became the destination. Hosted Exchange was retired rather than restored.