There has definitely been a lot of blind-idealism in a lot of P2P systems, yea. Though sometimes that's because it was/is just a PoC to see if it works at all, and then it grows too large to change / needs to be forked.

Iroh is definitely near the top of my "play with it some time" list, that pragmatism is very important for building normal things that normal people will be using :)