zMiller

"I'm challenging myself now to do the opposite, keep things extremely simple, unglamorous, dumb, sometimes ugly. But done."

Here here my friend.

I'm curious to your analysis .. Do you have any numbers or facts to corroborate your opinions ?

I don't believe it's a Zero sum game. The future is more likely to be a massive eco system of Block-chain implementations to each it's advantages and disadvantages.

And yes due to many factors, including being the first mover, I do see Bitcoin being the common denominator used to transfer work/stake from one chain to the next.

Depends who you ask really.

If you are a developer then you should invest your time and be able to learn and use the best tool for the job.

If however you are something like a Product manager then learning JS is much more valuable time investment. It is the one language that will, currently, run anywhere ... Backend, Frontend, Side end, whatever.

You can quickly get good at JS to the point of being able to prototype the full app stack and come up with something that works, goto market and fail. Should you find your self in the unlikely position that your product meets its success, then you can go ahead and hire a Go/Elxir/WebASM whatever guy to optimize this and needs larger throughput.

You have 24 hours in day, 6 to sleep, 3 to breath, 1 to eat. How do you want to spend the remaining 14 ? You get good at what you practice :)