Agree with this accounting.
There is limited, but definitely not zero, demand for this kind of thing. Towards the end of the project's lifetime they actually set up a mobile app, which is probably the last piece making it viable.
Whether it's viable as a business I'm not convinced at all, but as a protocol for casual p2p commerce it may well be, now we have a mature Lightning network (though it will emphatically only get used for niches here and there, not like it's going to replace Amazon et al.).
It never could have been a viable business, even if there was more buyer & seller demand... That's the nature of decentralized markets.
But I still hold out hope that one day that code will be in use instead of dark markets after someone brushes it off and adds the Lightning Network & TOR by default to it.
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