It's all fun and games until you've realized it's been 3 hours, you've not got anything done except doom scrolling on your phone and your cat is still asleep on you.
Sometimes being trapped is just fine. However, if it's not, my spouse and I have an SOS agreement, where the other will go to the kitchen and rattle the treat jar. Cats get treats, it's their decision to get up, and we can make our escape. Win/win.
One of our's is mostly white and we're pretty sure he has some deafness, too. But he can still hear the treat jar as long as we rattle it loudly enough.