Two challenges: first, yes, this does make life harder for Slack etc, but, if we took this logic at face value then your word processor would not be allowed to include a spell checker and your spreadsheet could not do charts (in the 1980s both of these were separate purchases). What’s the coherent theory for how we choose the trade-off between

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There are, very obviously, some things that absolutely are illegitimate tying and bundling. But how do you capture that without capturing everything else? There is a huge grey area between telling Microsoft it can’t force OEMs to bundle Office with Windows and telling Microsoft that it has to make consumers choose their network stack when they turn... See more

I can see parallels to the world of office productivity software. When we moved from desktop based (legacy MS office) to cloud based (Google Docs/sheets), some of the shifts you call out happened i.e. 1/ simultaneous collaboration between multiple participants 2/ single source of truth 3/ processing moved to cloud, but the unit of work still... See more