It's easy to abandon the initial vision and go for an 'everything goes' type of project in the face of adversity. I can say from experience that selling an everything goes project to investors is a whole lot harder than one with specific goals; ie. blockchain that provides a censorship-free outlet to content creators whilst allowing them to monetize work. Doing an elevator speech about a blockchain where you can build some random dapp (which barely passes the threshold of logic) and incomprehensibly profit is a lot harder.
I understand why the shift took place: to allow for massive growth. We've seen the same change in virtually every project or product aimed for a narrow (or a wide swath of a narrow) market. Think video games.
Are you on Discord? You probably know I lost Slack access a while ago now.
Interesting take, I'd love to read your thoughts on that at length.
Yes I'm on Discord, feel free to connect.
Which Discord room are you in? Can't find you. I can write a damn essay about this if you want.
Come to mine, at least to make contact, Nth Society https://discord.gg/fPqbPh