Agreed that the market doesn't disappear, and the habits that followed us over were the part of the post I care most about. The difference I'd defend is scale and cost. On the old platforms, bait was amplified by a system running constant experiments on hundreds of millions of people, and an angry click cost the reader nothing while counting five times over. Here a writer can still fish for attention, but nobody multiplies the hook for them, and a zap means someone parted with real money, which is much harder to farm with outrage. You're right that most people won't dial themselves.The ones who do no longer have to out muscle an optimizer to manage it. That's a fairer fight, which is about all a protocol can offer.