[asim]

I agree with a lot of that. I think the hard part is, who runs the nodes. If you hand a piece of hardware that people run in their house that's one thing. But if you expect them to run it themselves in the cloud it never goes well unless you have an engineer in the family. Maybe automation can allow the ability to spin up these nodes but ultimately it might be easier to support multitenancy and let a group of people run it e.g like every other saas service. But I guess the difference is the values on which it's founded. Every commercial or VC funded product goes the same way. Whereas stuff like Let's Encrypt has gone in a different direction. I'm not saying I have all the answers but some of these things we always seem to struggle to overcome. One thing I will say, the people who run it matter. Their motivations and their morale flexibility affects direction e.g ChatGPT has led OpenAI in a very different direction than first intended. Why is that?