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It's little surprise to find someone billing themselves as a 'distributed systems engineer' disliking a tool that helps regular people choose simple designs where appropriate.

From the perspective of a regular user, many "always only trusted third parties" exist - in the western world, for all intents and purposes, they include their utility suppliers, banks, telephone companies, email providers, and chat services.

This site is perfect for someone like my sister who is constantly forwarding blockchain-related junk to me, because her (non technical) job brought her to a few conferences about such things. Yet she doesn't understand the design tradeoffs of such an approach, she only sees the buzz.