Legal contracts are also a thing? In terms of seriousness, if you're willing to violate legal contracts, then what is the value of a pinky promise? The value of any promise is the sum of your credibility.
Something prone to procedural weaponization in the sense that strategic refusal to even consider redlined terms (the entire point of meeting of the minds) is rife.
I'd like to direct your attention to every piece of software's license agreement to which the answer to "decline" or "disagree" is to cease execution. Not to figure out what the person is actually okay with, and modifying execution from there.
Network effects are explicitly exploited (see "economies of scale") to lock in what the provider specifically wants. Hence why FLOSS is so important for it's role of providing BATNA.
