Hate to break to you, but non-SV companies are quite fond of insane EULAs too. And drivers were exploited before Uber/Lyft, as taxi companies already classified them as contractors.
In states, maybe. With uber that cancer spread worldwide.
As far as I know, they've used that model (UberPOP) only in few places. In my European country, they just accept companies, which hire their drivers as employees.
Sure, I've written nothing about SV in my post, only about a world without iPhones, Facebook, Google, Uber/Lyft
And only those products/companies have insane EULAs?