Yes, it’s great the world has David Irvine and the SAFE team to develop and improve upon the SAFE network. But just as it is for everyone in this world, bad things happen. Heaven forbid something happens to him and team to prevent them from doing future changes. If it does, who will make any of these future changes?
Agreed, SAFE will not have these problems and is one of many reasons why I think SAFE will be successful. But it will certainly have unforeseen issues down the road. It would be naive to believe SAFE will not have it’s own set of issues to ensure it remains future proof. We need new versions of Windows, iOS, Android, etc. The landscape changes so software needs to change with it.
SAFE could be a problem of its own success like bitcoin. If bitcoin was an obscure altcoin, forking it and making a better coin would be easy because it isn’t widely used. But bitcoin has achieved the network effect and is currently the king of digital crypto-currencies. New investments and ideas are being hatched every day based on the assumption bitcoin will survive. I.e. the bitcoin economy is big and will get bigger and bigger. So it’s not easy to fork bitcoin and expect the bitcoin economy to choose which fork to use. It undermines confidence. Imagine the US government announcing it will replace the USD with a new currency every few years and the previous versions would be rendered illegal and/or worthless. It would create financial havoc.