users care about the certainty of many guarantees offered by blockchains ("you control these funds", "this app can't steal your username"), and decentralization (of different kinds) is part of what makes those guarantees hard

Hot take:

End users just want products that work well, they don’t give a damn about decentralization.

Andy

users care about the certainty of many guarantees offered by blockchains ("you control these funds", "this app can't steal your username"), and decentralization (of different kinds) is part of what makes those guarantees hard

https://x.com/ayyyeandy/status/1882705439571534004

Yeah, users  just don't give a damn about the technical details that make what they do want possible. It is not possible to be educated on everything.