The core concept of Dfinity was supposed to be that they allowed developers to deploy secure Docker-like containers to anyone participating. It was a two-sided market, and the protocol was the market maker: hosts would join the network, which would earn them the Dfinity token. It seemed to be a replacement for mining.
They talked about things like censorship resistance, portability, etc.
It turns out that they had only signed up a single data center, so they were like a shitty ECS with unknowable pricing and absolutely no guarantees of security.
I even went as far as watching some of their videos. It was the most insane thing I've ever seen -- slick marketing production that looked like a parody of a futuristic TV talk show. It was beyond satire.