Perhaps it is a Larimer sellout. I think the cost of wallet creation for the BEOS drop was to create a barrier for the poorest to take part. The KYC will be another exclusion tactic.
Facebook and Google are prime examples of doing well and I am sure that EOS will do very well following in their footsteps.
Even many of the 1960s hippy generation sold out and became wealthy cogs in an exploitation machine.. sadly, i would not expect a numbers geek to fair much better.