im pretty bearish on ENS long-term

imo any sufficiently popular cryptosocial product will generate native demand for their own namespace, and be able to charge rent for identities. it'll be more profitable than co-opting ENS

the only truly canonical, interoperable identity is an ethereum address

This also doesn’t take into account the ubiquity of ENS in ethers.js and Wagmi and the derivatives. Not saying you can’t build that same sort of resolution into ethers but defaults have power.

true but any sophisticated + sufficiently popular platform (or protocol) will just build their own api for this if need be. not that complicated