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Author here... thanks for the feedback. I'll give some thought to how to better introduce the thesis up front.

The paragraph after "The Vision" seems reasonably clear on this:

> There is the potential today to reclaim control of our digital lives from monopolist platforms and unnecessary rent-seeking. There is a world within reach where always-on, always-connected pocket computers become personal data stores. All your photos, documents, messages, and other data live with you, not on a faceless server belonging to a random corporation. The only machine learning done is done for you. Data only leaves your device because you want to send it somewhere.

But they're not stored on central servers because we don't have room on our phones but because we want to share them with others. This whole article feels like an attack on Facebook and similar services without actually naming them. And, as a consequence, without actually addressing how they succeeded or how to supplant them.

I wasn't making an argument, just repeating the author's summary that was requested.

They do have a concise conclusion. I usually scroll to the bottom for the conclusion anyway.