"Sure social media can be harmful, but on the other hand there's Mastodon and Jane's Wholesome Baking Forum showing you can do better, so there's nothing to worry about."
Scale matters. Probably 99% of crypto trading takes place on destructive PoW platforms.
PoS has a political problem, as it's plainly a plutocracy. It makes it harder to pretend that magic cryptomath has solved society's issues.
But I guess such narrative makes it easier for you to defend your position in your own mind.
These theories are completely lacking in nuance and, frankly, aren't at all convincing. Further, it's incredibly jarring when a discussion that is premised on the merits of a technology derails into an almost _purely_ political argument of which I'm apparently on the wrong side of, despite never once saying I think that the unbanked don't deserve better, for instance.
It is utterly ubiquitous. If you don't approach the subject like this then good, but if you don't see these people crawling out of the woodworks on HN lately, you aren't looking.