In the US not all licenses are transferable, and that includes things like “accounts”.
That’s maybe a service that you can’t transfer but it’s still holding property of the account holder. More like escrow.
As to lawyers, well, they aren’t hiring lawyers to follow the intent of the law but to write terms that they think they might get away with, at least for a while, and if not, not be nailed for fraud or such. Corporate lawyers are just as slimy in the EU as they are elsewhere.