> when dealing with a lot of unknowns it's better to allow divergence and exploration

I completely agree, though I'm personally sitting out all of these protocols/frameworks/libraries. In 6 months time half of them will have been abandoned, and the other half will have morphed into something very different and incompatible.

For the time being, I just build things from scratch, which–as others have noted¹–is actually not that difficult, gives you understanding of what goes on under the hood, and doesn't tie you to someone else's innovation pace (whether it's higher or lower).

¹ https://fly.io/blog/everyone-write-an-agent/

I recently heard that when automobiles were new the USA quickly ended up in a state with 80 competing manufacturing brands. In a couple decades, the market figured out what customers actually want and what styles and features mattered, and the competition ecosystem consolidated to 5 brands.

The same happened with GPUs in the 90s. When Jensen formed Nvidia there were 70 other companies selling Graphics Cards that you could put in a PCI slot. Now there are 2.