My friends that have walked through the area can confirm.
Why predict defeat?
Why not appreciate the experiment as an alternative to our broken system?
Yeah, it'll eventually go away.
But maybe change will be secured, and there are some ideas that do make sense and will spread or stick around.
Is the worst that could happen worse than the status quo?
You sound like one of the commenters on Drew Houston's Ask HN telling him no-one will pay for rsync.