[Jd]

My sense is that the project started in its inner sanctum and has been iterating gradually towards something that can be understood and used.

It actually can be explained simply:

Cross platform deployed VMs with their own primitives that also have the ability to network with each other via a custom protocol.

That's interesting and potentially very valuable.

Keep in mind this whole Hacker News and Ycombinator paradigm is effectively an outworking of the same process. Some savant Lisper with their own dialect making in a unique way that over time was re-coded and made more accessible.