Fully agree that these articles often fail to put things in a broader context. But I'll take it a step further than 'Blockchain is not the answer' and indicate

Fully agree that these articles often fail to put things in a broader context. But I'll take it a step further than 'Blockchain is not the answer' and indicate that Web3 itself probably isn't an answer to that much in the first place. "this either is a problem, or is likely to become one." Web 1/2 approaches have tremendous advantages. As the original article stated - people don't want to run servers. People don't want to manage confusing things. We want everything mostly SaaS. Some of those push a bit too far, like Apple locking you out of your Mac - but this is probably best dealt with with legislation. The privacy and control benefits of self hosting are limited to mostly niche use cases, and of course, blockchains have problems, as you mention. Web 2 is just a few bits of legislation, a few rational consumer choices, and a few fewer crappy companies away from being fairly ideal. Don't use iCloud, avoid Google for anything other than search, don't 'depend' on Facebook or Twitter and already you're doing well. Dialogue and experiments are great, but NFT/Crypto so far is just a lot of MLM noise.