I hope that the outcome of all of this is that regular working professionals start asking for, and advocating, open source products and community led protocols,

I hope that the outcome of all of this is that regular working professionals start asking for, and advocating, open source products and community led protocols, and for all the major networks to interoperate. The tech pessimist in me says that won't happen, in some ways due to how openness kicked off this whole AI arms races (commoncrawl is the source of OpenAIs dataset, which got most of its corpus in the early days from Reddit), and now people are locking down their platforms to secure their own data fiefdoms to feed their AIs.