> Believe me, if you don't have VC money to burn, you will not be experimenting with CRDTs and synchronizing distributed data from a multitude of versions of your application.

While you're right that doing this is less convenient, I can say with the personal experience of developing a few such projects on a shoestring that doing this isn't as hard or expensive as you're making out. It's entirely doable. It just requires thoughtful engineering.