I'm honestly pretty ambivalent about this. My initial interest in this was of this purely technical sort you're advocating for. But that was almost a decade ago in '12/'13. So yeah, I'm now much more interested in seeing what people are doing with this that is useful. I'm actually not in this boat of thinking nobody has done anything useful with blockchains yet, but I do think their usefulness seems to severely lag their hype, and I am more interested in the discussion of use cases than pure technology at this point. But I also agree that it's tiresome that this same discussion is had on every article related to it.