@hipsterelectron I feel like several things are going on, and I don't understand all of them.
Beyond software, I've tried to think how to articulate a basic question of strategy, whether to try to organize people to reclaim a social institution and reshape it, or to try to create a new independent institution that we control directly.
The latter is often criticized as abandoning people who are coerced to use the existing institution, or as cruelly forcing people to use something inferior.