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Most of the answers are going to be products that do extensive lock in as a service. So its easy to replace quickbooks with dozens if not hundreds of old or current accounting software but only quickbooks has the integration with seemingly every financial service out there. Another example is Slack, when people ask for a replacement for Slack they don't mean "IRC in a GUI" but they mean chat with maybe a thousand integrations to every other service and product, so no matter how you configure IRC it'll never had a thousand one click integrations.

The next most popular answer will be defining user friendly and capable as being a bug for bug compatible identical clone with the current industry leader, despite the fact that the industry leader changes their app completely every two years as a moving target yet the users don't care at all, and the industry leader is rarely user friendly because they don't need to be once they have lock in. What they mean is the transfer will be visually seamless to end users and they somehow don't think that writing a clone would have any legal repercussions to the author and writing a clone would be significantly cheaper than just writing something original. So despite "MS Office" being a continuously moving target for 30 years there will never be a FOSS replacement for it, because it would be legal and labor impossible to make an exact bug for bug clone of todays current version and then maintain it tomorrow. Despite the fact that Google Workspace makes end users considerably more productive and its easier to use and easier to learn, its not bug for bug compatible with Excel so its worthless.

The next most popular answer after that will be UpdatesAsAService where last year's product is pretty much worthless today and you're paying for this years product to work. See TurboTax, and as much as no one wants to admit it publicly, almost all security software that only protects you tomorrow, if they even get to it that soon, from yesterday's threats.