The Dolby comparison with MQA is actually useful, as long one remembers it’s not a strict analogy. Mike Moffat of Schiit here explains in his over the top way:
@John [Moderated] asks why “we” don’t complain of this particular monopoly and tax. Well we do, but this is the Roon community and this thread is about MQA. Monopolies are very hard to break within consumer markets, almost always requiring government intervention - THX and the rest have been unable to break Dolby just as Moffat points out.
Audio consumers are wise (or simply self interested) to point to this aspect of MQA’s design and strategery, that is its ambition to be a closed source monopolistic standard.