Ok, let’s cherry pick some more societal tech revolutions. People also thought Segways were not the revolution in transportation despite fans and industry proponents saying we’d need to redesign cities to accommodate them. People also thought blockchain ledgers were a niche, even if useful, technique despite fans and industry proponents saying they were going to change literally everything.(remember Web 3.0?) People thought NFTs were a fundamentally flawed solution in search of a problem despite fans and industry proponents asserting they’d revolutionize IP. People thought that the metaverse was kind of ridiculous despite fans and industry proponents saying we’d all live a significant portion of our lives there, and some were practically running victory laps at the beginning of the pandemic when everybody was forced online (but then still didn’t use the metaverse. Some thought immersive VR headsets were a niche technology with limited consumer appeal despite fans and industry proponents claiming they’d essentially be the default display for computing by now.