over the last five years, I've created every chart/diagram that I've used in an article or presentation in crypto using the same Miro board. kinda wild to see how large it's gotten (and how much of the thinking there is now wrong/irrelevant haha)

What is the most stark disconnect from a past opinion and the current view?

If you don’t know, the thing to do is not to get scared, but to learn - Ayn Rand

I feel like the first point revolves around the lack of penetration from onchain games to wider audiences as these are ecosystems for widespread token experimentation as u noted. 

The second I also suspect continues to develop with wallets owning more of the user experience but I continue to be proven wrong

Willingness of devs and users to compose tokens together directly onchain (stuff like burn to mint and token gating enshrined into contracts), and also my belief that frontends would become more multi/protocol or data intensive (they have become more isolated and simplified instead).