Why is terrestrial subduction one-sided?

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Organized melt, seismic anisotropy, and plate boundary lubrication (2010, background): “…[e.g., Regenauer‐Lieb et al., 2001], melt corrosion [e.g., Leroux et al., 2008], generalized “damage” or porosity growth [e.g., Bercovici and Ricard, 2005], effects of melt [e.g., Tommasi et al., 1994], and generalized plastic yield behavior [e.g., Gerya et al., 2008; Huismans and Beaumont, 2002].”
A free plate surface and weak oceanic crust produce single‐sided subduction on Earth (2012, background): “Previous studies showed that weak hydrated crust (sediments, hydrothermally altered basalts, serpentinites) present on top of the terrestrial oceanic plates have an important effect on the style of subduction by acting as a lubricating layer between two converging plates [Lenardic and Kaula, 1994; G”
Subduction styles in the Precambrian: Insight from numerical experiments (2009, background): “The sedimentation and erosion rates correspond to the following relations, ms = 0 mm=y; me = me0 mm=y; when zbzsea; and ms = ms0 mm=y; me = 0 mm=y; when z N zsea; where νe0=0.03 mm/y and νs0=0.03 mm/y are the imposed erosion and sedimentation rates, respectively, and zsea=10 km (20 km for cases…”