That's not cynical or emotional, just a perfectly reasonable outcome based on expertise and, to varying degrees, lived experience.
Dan Boneh teaches cryptography for Stanford and works for a16z crypto.
Silvio Macali is a Turing award winner working full time in a new blockchain.
People like Gavin Wood (CS PhD) and Vitalik are obviously top 1% of engineering talent.
It’s amazing how HN insists crypto people live in a bubble, but upvote the low effort “web3 is a scam” written by nobodies post du jour but choose to ignore all the worlds leading cryptographers excited about web3.
HN is 100x the bubble/ echo chamber than the crypto world is .
One Turing winner’s opinion shouldn’t be given undue weight. Kary Mullis was a Nobel Prize recipient who used his scientific clout to advocate for the once-popular claim that HIV doesn’t cause AIDS even after evidence was overwhelming: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kary_Mullis
Excellent scientists can be wrong outside their narrow field of expertise.