Right and that's one of the ways that we can recognize it's an interesting area. Once it's understood, the problems well-bounded, the window has generally closed. Of course there is also risk, sometimes we've wandered too far afield and we're just out in the weeds.
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/sep/08/decentral...
I'm still not sure what it is but I kind of get the idea.