Every time I encountered someone pitching a DAO or a Blockchain to an organization, they specifically bundled several things together to make them indistinguishable - the culture with the technology, the way a community is organized with the tools they use. With that, there fewer footholds for any kind of question, insight into what is really happening.
This is what I mean by saying that the technology is transparent and it's not always a good thing, because it makes us unable to discuss it.