You say this, about AWS using IPv4 scarcity for lock-in, but IPv4 prices have been falling for years.

If you want to buy space and auction it off to lessors, more power to you. I don't think there needs to be a moral dimension to it one way or the other. The RIR system was also not good.

Sounds like making IPv6 more commonly used is part of the solution.

Reduce the importance of IPv4 and the stranglehold of big conglomerates is forcibly relaxed (in this context at least).

I don't like that I've ignored IPv6 for so long that now it feels overwhelming to have to try to grasp. That may be true for a lot of networking folks for whom IPv4 is written in their DNA, given the incredibly slow uptake of IPv6.

I agree with 100% also as an IP space owner.