Thanks for the thoughtful response, and you're absolutely right, the current legal system is designed to handle all these. Right now, Oracles are also way more complex to build, and they can't handle the nuances of meeting X specification in a way that's simple and easy to do.

To be clear, that doesn't mean that a simple solution will never be created. Obviously we think it will, but that doesn't mean we're right.

But to address a slightly different part of your framing, our situation actually got more complicated when attempting to go the legal route. We suddenly had additional lawyer, collections, and time costs associated with the process...and we still never managed to collect. That's certainly an area where the current legal system fails (for a lot of people!).

Cryptocurrencies might not be the perfect alternative, but they are an alternative that, in our opinion, is exciting to explore.