FWIW, “boiling the frog” is the example of false reasoning about slippery slopes (the frog in actuality always left)

Your larger point still stands though of normalizing changing expectations by slow degrees

Good metaphor. On the one hand, Google increasingly cooperates and makes deals with militaries and governments. On the other hand, it increasingly locks down its customers and eliminates their privacy and freedoms.

Google has just about got the pot boiling. They win, we lose.