> it's not really clear what the positives or negatives would be

Isn't this also true for Facebook itself as related to how dependent they are on revenue and at what cost that comes to the users who help generate it (by being presented as "eyeballs" to the advertisers)?

We used to let kids play with dry cleaning bags, until we discovered they were idiots and can suffocate on them.

The realization today is that parents were the actual idiots, not the kids.