Gatekeepers will gatekeep. The demonstrations are just that. Demonstrations. They are not seeing the Forrest for the trees so to speak. The idea is that you can create a network with pretty much anything, and demonstrates that capability. I think the people complaining are expecting that people interested in implementing this would only use it illegally or outside of reasonable norms.

The death star is clearly an underachiever

Whole solar systems!, so yeah, Pluto too.