> If they don’t, they end up having data from different licenses. If you have many of those, figuring out what you can and cannot do with data becomes a nightmare.

That's their problem to figure out. If they can't then they should terminate customers who don't agree and ship them their data.

Obviously they'll never do that since it would be a terrible look and they'd lose customers, because they want to have their cake and eat it, too.

I am not sympathetic to how hard it would be for a corporation to do something. "It's too hard" is not an excuse, not least of all if they're a multi-billion dollar corporation.

We don’t use that kind of reasoning with other service providers.

If, for example, your bank changes their terms, your electricity provider increases prices, landlords increase rent, etc. they will inform you and often silently enrol you in the new scheme. Cancelling the agreement always (and maybe not even that) is an option, but that is opt-out, not opt-in.

So, why would cloud providers be different?

My bank grandfathered me onto an account TOS for a decade before giving me a "move to our modern accounts or close" ultimatum, my electricity provider has legal limits to what the the unit rate and landlords are limited to one rate increase every 12 months, which in my city also has its amount limited. If my phone, internet or TV company wants to increase prices that voids any contractual lock in period I may have been held to otherwise. I work for a B2B company and we do gate features depending on which revision of the TOS the client has agreed to.

In short, other countries outside the US _do_ hold other service providers to similar standards.

I couldn’t have said it better myself. If we don’t hold other service providers to the same standard then that’s our failing.