Exactly and that's why I use that image because the money men WILL take notice once they smell blood. You're also right that token creators are paying for that privilege to be a creator because they are 'down the chain' .. Even if reviving old code the network must live somewhere where costs exist.
No matter how much we believe in these systems we can't just ignore the challenges and only talk about how great ideas can magically become the perfect system.
Lukestokes made a solid point on his blog recently. That it's easy to speculate but extremely hard to actually build.