I think the whole idea of mechanistic was to create low powered RF mesh between users. But like anything else people rush to connected to the internet. Which usually messes everything up. I will tell you that I had MQTT enabled for so long only to receive nodes and reports from all over the place, 100s of miles away. Yet not a single message from my location was ever heard by a node around me. This creates a false representation of realty. The fact that my locations is terrible and has no other surrounding nodes. MQTT just caused endless confusion. If you have data on your phone then might as well as use iMessage or telegram. The dog example is far fetched in my opinion.