My take on it is basically nobody knows what it is about. Like you said, even people with deep understandings of the technology probably aren't capable of fully understanding its implications, anyone that tries to tell you definitively is speculating. It is like "satoshi" made a sandbox and everyone else has been spending the past decade either trying to figure it out, or dismissing it as a scam.

It's a gold rush in the wild west, it starts off very inefficient, actual scams abound and crazy speculation is everywhere, like a gold rush at the end of the day there is probably something with value under all the craziness, that is what happens when things are new and people don't understand it, they are the ones that are establishing the parameters of its function, what it can and cant do. It seems like all mainstream blockchain related discussion is basically people circle jerking about how it is 100000% a scam or how it is the new paradigm with no space in between, which is pretty disappointing.