I think you have good points, but I would also add to it that the high barrier to entry also prevented people from being copy cats. A simple messenger was a maj

I think you have good points, but I would also add to it that the high barrier to entry also prevented people from being copy cats. A simple messenger was a major accomplishment, so when something worked there weren't 10,000 copies of it by the end of the week, so nearly all content you found was actually the original and not just some repost or copy paste job.