In hacker culture, the correct question is "Why not?"

Somebody wanted to do something, and they did it; it doesn't have to be any more complicated than that :-)

> Don't be curmudgeonly. Thoughtful criticism is fine, but please don't be rigidly or generically negative.

Sincerely, HN Guidelines Police :-)

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

To demonstrate the potential of iroh to enable accessing stuff across complex network structures for iot type use cases

Because Uncle Iroh needs more fans maybe? (should have been a tea kettle)