Yeah, I've been pretty disappointed by what they actually shipped. The concept (decentralized, financially incentivized storage) is really neat, and there would be a demand for it, but every time I've tried to use it, it's been incredibly difficult. Ran into similar problems with Sia.

Example: I'd love to use one of these projects as an additional backup layer for my NAS, but the technical complexity necessary to set it all up makes it.. feel very fragile. Definitely not set and forget.

My hope is that in 10 years something cool comes out of one of these projects, but we're definitely not there yet.