"The strength of CRDTs is in that they have extremely well defined behavior and aren't fundamentally reliant on a central coordinator or leader." Very much agr

"The strength of CRDTs is in that they have extremely well defined behavior and aren't fundamentally reliant on a central coordinator or leader." Very much agree with this. Coordination is a super hard problem in distributed systems, and becomes enormously more difficult if you assume adversaries actively trying to interfere with your system. Good distributed systems engineering is heavily focused on eliminating complexity and solving for every possible error case. CRDTs have a low number of error cases and allow nodes to interact together in clean, non-complex ways. Distributed systems engineers like reaching for CRDTs as a tool because they can take your engineering costs down by an order of magnitude.