OT depends on a central server to reconcile conflicts. The whole point of CRDT is to not have a central coordinator. Yes they're mostly academic in that the set

OT depends on a central server to reconcile conflicts. The whole point of CRDT is to not have a central coordinator. Yes they're mostly academic in that the set of problems reasonably solved with eventual consistency is quite small, but not vanishingly small. Many "web scale" data stores rely on eventual consistency, for example.