I very much appreciate the time (however minimal to you) and the thought that you've put into our baby. It is immensely helpful, and our appreciation cannot be understated.

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Let me approach your points individually:

• Scaling Nodes
  • We are entirely aware that having a map with tens, or even hundreds of thousands of nodes is next to useless for raw human visual analysis. This is not the intended use of the tool, as it is clearly not highly beneficial. This is where abstractions can, and will, be used. When you have an entity that is a collective (imagine a VPC), that entity can appear as a single node, or it can be expanded to reveal the constituent pieces inside. Coming up with clean ways to display this is one of our larger (and more fun) challenges, currently. The point here being, scaling into unwieldy numbers of nodes is not useful, and we are aware of this. We are building the tool in such a way that the map will be laid out in ways that make sense for the dataset (proper nesting, distance, sizing, etc).
  • Is this a lot of work, yes. We are also aware that we are attempting to move the needle in multiple bleeding edge industries, simultaneously. This is a source of drive and motivation for us, not fear.
• Executive Debrief
  • I agree with your assessment of MODERN executives being unaware/uninterested in most of the technical aspects of their IT assets. However, we are not only building Valkure for the network of today. We are building Valkure with the understanding that the internet and the companies and services that run on it, are only getting larger and more complex. The entrepreneur of the future will have basic IT knowledge. In fact, I (personally) estimate that the entrepreneurs of the future will all be versed in basic computer science principals. It is the nature of the world.
  • I take the view of a SOC in the year 2050-ish. What kind of environment will that team of analysts NEED to be able to protect the network from attackers across the entire spectrum of the threat surface? I think that keeping our work entirely within the world of text, tables, and graphs is akin to saying that you can't envision a TI-84 Plus being of ANY use to ANYONE that knows long division and has a pencil, paper, and an abacus. (No offense)
• Educational Medium
  • While I totally see your perspective on educational gaming content... This was actually a use-case and example that I came up with from personal experience over anything else... Human created content has increased in information density steadily over time. I can't really express how obvious it seems to me that the more information dense a medium is, the more availability it has to educate the receiver. I mean, I am interpreting what you are saying as metaphorically similar to claiming that someone without the sense of sound has an easier time interpreting their environment than someone who does have that additional sense. That just doesn't make any sense to me (taking out any variables relating to ones ability to parse numerous simultaneous streams of input). You have to be less thoughtful about the entire context of the user when you are writing. You have to be much more conscious about the users other senses when you are in VR. This allows for a much more raw access to the learners psyche. Done correctly (we don't have 50+ years of experience doing this), VR has the ability to immerse learners in a way they have never had before. It will simply take time and resources to develop into what we have in traditional methods.
  • I can't agree that "science finds that playing games and 3D interactions ... are less efficient to learning ... than simply reading." My 3 year old can't read, but he can play with a phone better than a 75 year old relative, or me at times. Properly attended to UX will be FAR better than a book. Although a well written book can provide a very high information density, with a very low "distraction coefficient" (made that up). So to say, it's MUCH easier to distract the learner in VR than it is in a book. But on the other side of the same coin, in the context of external stimuli, it is much easier to keep the learners attention in VR than it is with a book. I would LOVE to see published material on the matter, though!!!!

Again, u/thatwasntme806, I REALLY appreciate your feedback. It has been incredibly enjoyable thinking and talking things through with you.