HackLaddy, I completely share your goal of having a high-quality discussion, but I believe I did my best here by following the Double Crux technique: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/exa5kmvopeRyfJgCy/double-crux-a-strategy-for-mutual-understanding

I was asking the questions that were at the heart of my own confusion about whether Web3 has any use cases. I was optimizing the conversation for *allowing Balaji to change my mind as easily as possible* by giving satisfactory answers to my questions.