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A good summary of some unhappy comments is that its an experimental reboot of a vast new system. Most of the people who are unhappy went into it expecting something very small like "uber for the jvm" or "the twitter of functional programming" or similar.

Progress in IT / CS has dramatically slowed over my life. Urbit feels much like 80s home computing, where forklift upgrades of everything you know was "normal" in the extremely rapid transition from Altair CP/M to an Amiga to a SunOS box or whatever path. Nothing is new in the last 20 years, at least compared to the incredibly rapid pace of change in the first 10 years I was into computers. I'm just saying that however unthinkable a forklift upgrade is culturally in 2016, in 1986 it was considered to be "great fun" not a problem or a downside.