I don't see how anything you said makes it a bad idea. I'm not deeply familiar with how Solid works, but if the goal is to put users in control of their own data, this is worth pursuing. Self-hosting is only accessible to technical users, and decentralized web apps are an improvement over the status quo, but in practice users can still choose to give up their rights to a 3rd party.

What TBL is trying to do is commendable, and it's something that should've been built into the web from the beginning, so Solid feels like him trying to correct his past mistakes. Though I'm afraid that it might be too late to do course correction on the modern ad-powered web behemoth, and that a web reboot would be necessary for this to gain any traction at all.

> Just because a guy comes up with a good thing once doesn't mean his next thing needs to be covered ad nauseum on his personal brand name alone.

Ad nauseum? The coverage of this is severely limited, and even the technical discussion around it, as you can see on this forum.

Yes, this probably shouldn't ride on his brand name alone, but maybe it's worth listening to the father of the web when he says that his invention has gone astray.