And the Crypto Andys were all like "you just don't understand DeFi!" to which the retort is "No, you just don't understand finance".
Finance is the way it is for many reasons. There are thousands of years of lessons that have made the system the way it is. I get the innovator mentality of sweeping away the old but there seems to be a fine line between innovation and ignorance.
I'm just sitting on the sidelines watching people relearn all the lessons of finance the hard way, some because they think they understand finance because because they understand merkle trees and consensus protocols but really most just want to get rich quick.
There was enough in the terra ecosystem to come to a conclusion of avoiding completely