There’s nuance to it. You can’t ever get good enough at driving that Uber gives you a special deal, and you aren’t selling each of your rides to people on multiple services at once. The power dynamic isn’t quite as lopsided, at least not for everybody.

But… it’s also not completely different, especially for the smaller devs. Valve definitely comes from that same tech upstart mentality, and it only drifted further into it as they stopped being primarily a game developer and became primarily a storefront.