Taxis also use a platform to function. They have radio dispatch, they rent cars to drivers, they have digital platforms with online orders.

Taxi companies traditionally stiff their drivers out of benefits too, and are typically in bed with local administration and politicians so they never get called out on it.

Their online platforms have ratings you can't rely on, there's fake cabs, fake meters, ghost drivers, cash only, angry drivers, dirty and broken cars, aggressive and unsafe driving etc.

So if your point is that taxi companies will fill back the demand after Uber is gone that's true, but it won't change anything for the drivers.

In fact many of the Uber drivers will be permanently out of the picture because they're not pro drivers and are not familiar with the more cut throat taxi business.