Polkadot has built a remarkable technical stack, but even the most sophisticated technology is rendered irrelevant if it fails to meet the evolving needs of society—a clear sign its development direction has gone off track.There is no doubt about Polkadot’s engineering excellence, yet the project lacks ideological alignment with the shifting paradigms of societal progress.Polkadot’s innate rejection of trends and hype has allowed it to maintain a singular focus on technical innovation, but this strength has become a fatal weakness. By turning its back on broader industry movements, the project risks making irreversible strategic missteps.The recent explosion of interest in projects like Moltbook and Openclaw has highlighted a glaring issue: the Polkadot community has barely engaged with these developments. This silence is deeply disheartening.The accumulation of complexity is the engine of progress. Obsessive pursuit of technical purity actually dismantles this essential complexity, as societal and technological advancement is driven by countless unpredictable and emergent factors. Polkadot’s instinctual avoidance of trends is effectively self-mutilation—it systematically rejects the novel, disruptive elements that drive evolutionary progress.Polkadot urgently needs to reevaluate its priorities for the AI era. The community must ask: what technology will society actually need as it evolves? Without this clarity, the project will always lag behind, chasing established concepts instead of pioneering new ones.Right now, Polkadot’s ideological framework focuses on product-led growth—a strategy that is neither novel nor forward-thinking. Most market teams have already adopted this approach, and capital markets do not reward ideas that lack visionary insight.In my view, building foundational infrastructure for the AI age should be the overarching ideological mission that guides the Polkadot community forward.
Polkadot must urgently evaluate whether JAM technology aligns with our core mission. If it does, we must accelerate its deployment at maximum speed. If it does not, immediate corrections are required.The product-driven mindset, in contrast, is inherently lacking in forward-thinking vision.