Well, that's one of the points. It's easy and trivial to come up with the downsides of something. There are already a bunch of people trying to do that in every thread.
Might as well exercise the less-used part of the brain where you try to imagine the positive aspects of something.
I would care if i knew the buzz around these things is organic or genuine. Yet this thing popped simultaneously on my twitter , hn and elsewhere, clearly some marketing machine is pushing it. Overall though, technology that reduces the options of the user and gatekeeps is always net negative imho.
Might as well exercise the less-used part of the brain where you try to imagine the positive aspects of something.