Excellent write up ✍️ thank you for taking the time to describe in detail all your points.

It's totally expected to have these examples when scaling any service globally

Personally I think of the army of node runners and miners continually updating the status quo, as the heartbeat of Bitcoin

Whales politicians celebrities will come and go and their ego must be satisfied

tolkeins rings, time travel, the arc of the covenant. anything that is desired will draw people to it