If you're talking about hosting non wavlake or fountain, then yes, agreed those splits are not permissionless if you're using their wallets or hosting your feed on their server.

Thats sorta how it works by definition... If you chose a permissioned option in your workflow then the whole workflow becomes permissioned.

But if you dont... and only chose permissionless sovereign options in your stack then... youd be permissionless.

Guyputsstickinbikewheel.meme