Hardest to game is like lesser evils. Lesser evils remain evil, as hard games remain played.

I personally value direct interactions with people I do business with more than ever in my life. Too many middle companies all working some angle to make more than the value they may actually deliver.

Well, a few things:

Trust in all this kind of service is reaching a low ebb. We keep finding incidents where the behavior is not as represented.

Frankly, the money might be too good.

And that's fine. Is what it is, people do what they do

I am stepping back, reevaluating these kinds of value propositions, and recommending peers do the same.