[razzio]

Thanks for the summary. Granted I feel a bit sleepy after lunch but the article doesn't have a TL&DR and after skimming I still felt clueless on problems web 3 is supposed to solve.

I guess its one of those cases where time will show what sticks and what people find acceptable. To me they are all controversial.

[burnished]

I don't think the purpose of the article is to convince you about the merits of web3, so you probably aren't missing anything there. My reading of it is that the authors don't want to lose our ability to have a constructive conversation where people can be mutually intelligible and clearly understand what they disagree on.