@kissane Very well-written article, thank you for sharing it!
On the points presented, I think I'm almost completely in alignment with your findings.
I don't know what the right answer is to the Health First vs Own Your Experience problem, but I don't at all envy the group(s) that have to make the call on it.
I do think the people who are building features eg opt-in full-text search are well-intentioned and acting in good faith, but even then there are cries of it not being The Fediverse Way.
@kissane
Somewhat relatedly, I worry that as more projects come to be built around the AP protocol, and as existing projects mature further, a given development group's preferences as a whole will lead to increasingly compatibility-breaking divergencies.
The big projects on the #fediverse today _already_ have substantially different design goals and there are today some incompatible features between them -- in some cases, unintuitively and inapparently so.