I'm not you have the right sense of Tesla as a company. They don't entrench. They don't defend. Their only defense is simply that they innovate and iterate faster than anyone else in their industry.

They don't want to lock people into their network. The network is a means to an end: get more people to see electric cars as "cars" and not as "electric, limited use, limited range, cars". The Tesla Network simply gets more people into their cars, which gets more people to buy their cars. It also helps people see Tesla as a utility, and not as an exotic car like a Lamborghini.

Tesla is out to break expectations for "what companies do", and draw a new profile for what a successful company can be like.

But they have to operate within the existing legal frameworks, one of which is that licenses for commercial activities come with an enormous amount of additional rules and regulations that someone has to sign on to.

You can drive your ratrod on the road for personal conveyance.

You cannot use your ratrod as a taxi.

Same thing here with Tesla's licensing. It's not about what Tesla wants. It's about the regulatory framework that Tesla is trying to dismantle, piece by piece.