@MayInToronto Part of the reason I declined is I didn't want to sit at an event and be "the ATProto/Bluesky naysayer". I've given my analysis, and people can find it pretty easily. If I stood up and spoke further, I'd feel like I was being negative unnecessarily, and I don't want that.
Right now I'm interested in building! And the stuff Spritely is doing is fairly differently-shaped than what ATProto is doing. We've got a lot of work to do.