To be fair, the MCPs of 8 months ago are not the MCPs of today. You had to mess around with headers and .env files and local npm proxies and other bullshit only cli jockeys would tolerate. The MCPs of today are fully remote, stateless, oauth enabled, and integrated much more nicely into the the user experience. Click a button and it works.

I do agree, the "MCPs are dead" narrative was overblown, but there were legit reasons we weren't ready to go all in on them back then.