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The real issue is that the infrastructure is, over the long term, separate to the car.

Mobile phones versus mobile phone networks are separate businesses. They used to be more common but carrier-branded phones aren't the mainstream these days and even where they still exist, they're manufactured by someone else and just branded.

No car manufacturer's building their own roads so far as I'm aware.

Airlines, airports and aircraft manufacture are all separate businesses and any major airport is used by more than one airline. Even the bus service to the airport isn't run by the airlines anymore but is a separate business.

ICE cars aren't tied to any particular brand of fuel.

Plenty of trains running on tracks owned by someone else.

And so on.

I totally agree that Tesla has invested in charging facilities and ought be compensated and so on but ultimately the concept of allowing open access has been forced on every other comparable industry unless they'd already done it themselves.

Even some (all?) of the bank-owned brokers don't actually insist that you use their bank for the cash account. Encourage it certainly but they don't force it.