I don't like to be too negative, but this article feels like a senior partner or committee brainstormed article topics and assigned it to someone else. It's almost like someone started with an outline of the headers of each article section and the contents were filled in with the most obvious possible content. It feels like the kind of topic/article that GPT-4 or later will pump out en masse in the not too distant future. It's as if someone at a16z said "we need more blog content and we want an article on open source finance" and this was the result.

On the other side, I appreciate that VCs like a16z are pushing forward these ideas. I don't necessarily think this article is a reflection of the current reality but it does suggest a future. It signals that a16z is looking for startups to invest in to move this space forward.