I don't think there's necessarily any contradiction. This is a critique of the Web3 paradigm (crypto all the things) and not cryptocurrency itself for say, payments.

Yeah I read the article more as a list of valid suggestions for a nascent industry. Not an attempt to suggest that crypto is going to disappear entirely.

> at the same time, adding crypto based payments to Signal...

Damn, and just when I'd been thinking how much I like Signal.

The goldrush when Keybase added crypto completely ruined what had been a pretty good tool.