Meshtastic is fine for a small network but people are using it with the intention of building a city-wide mesh network and it’s failing miserably. There would have to be big changes in Meshtastic before it’s viable in such an environment. Meshcore however seems to show promise. The only downside being the need for repeater nodes since clients don’t repeat. I’m seeing a little adoption of Meshcore locally.

Good on him. I’m going to make it a point to listen to more Neil Young.

This sounds about right. My parents only use their browsers. They literally do not use any applications outside of the browser. They would be just fine on Linux but change is scary and everything just works.