I think it's a dual case of architecture astronauts combined with the stickiniess of money that's made a weird mess out of everything. What many wanted (many s

I think it's a dual case of architecture astronauts combined with the stickiniess of money that's made a weird mess out of everything. What many wanted (many still wants) is a bittorrent-equivalent-for-social-media,etc.. "free" of the clutches of companies like FB, somehow along the way Etherum made the promise of monetary incentives for distributed computing (even if the computation wasn't the "work" function but rather something more focused on Etherum needs itself). p2p storage,messaging,etc is what people envisions as the building blocks for this (because they don't want to be stuck with a single design). The saddest part is that seemingly most enthusiasts of these kind-of exciting technologies strapped themselves onto the dead end cryptocash bandwagon(bitcoin is fundamentally unscalable, lighting is an interesting bandaid but nowhere near needs required for global scale in practice) and still hasn't let go.