For the creative community I'm sort of involved in (independent tabletop roleplaying games) there has been a lot of interest in Kickstarter as a way to fund creative projects, but also a lot of vocal anti-crypto sentiment, so the controversy over this was pretty hot in my twitter feed. To me this quote from the article is really the key issue:

Does this solve problems for users? Does it help advance our mission? I think we look at these technologies, we think they are relevant and not going away. And then you have two choices: you have a choice to shy away from them and hope they go away. Or you have a choice to try to, you know, thoughtfully engage with them. Challenge them, find the opportunities, and shape them towards our mission, which we think is really important compared to the profit maximization that some of the bad actors you see in this space are doing.

I think a lot of anti-crypto people are still of the opinion that they have an opportunity to kill crypto in the cradle, so the debate ends up being more fiery than one might expect.