Ethereum itself must pass the walkaway test. Ethereum is meant to be a home for trustless and trust-minimized applications, whether in finance, governance or elsewhere. It must support applications that are more like tools - the hammer that once you buy it's yours - than like services that lose all functionality once

you know it’s a banger if people are arguing in the comments.

using your platform to kill a company building on your network, trick folks into using your shiny new thing and then straight up abandoning it master class in dirty dog tactics and frankly makes me want everything to be sent to hades as retribution it’s the best place to build unless it’s a meta and then we want a

long string of typos call that a key stroke

this is why people get so agro when the team dunks, when the presales are botched, when there’s no acknowledgement of avoidable mistakes. We’re enthusiastic and we want to be aligned. We’re not haters, we want to be aligned with competence. We want this place to succeed.