Hi Joseph! Good to see you here.

Sorry, I see why this was confusing. What I'm saying is that because users perceive the results of OT, CRDTs, prosemirror-collab, etc. as data corruption, they require presence carets as a UI affordance, to steer them away from direct edit conflicts.

If you can't have presence carets, yes... likely best to have a diff view. And in our case, we use git/jj for this, rather than CRDTs.

For the "history of" stuff... in spite of the fact that we have our disagreements, I actually think it would be very nice to have Kevin and everyone else on the record long-form talking about this. Just because I am a non-believer doesn't mean it wasn't worth trying!