I don’t recall the moment you’re talking about, but I wonder if it connects to his persistent theme of the trade-offs between complexity and simplicity—that complexity can be powerful but it can also turn away less well-trained participants. Based on these reflections, I am thinking that the right direction for CR is a bias for simplicity.
And I think you’re right that a ToS can arise regardless of any visualization or explicit rule-set. But I also think explicit rules reduce the amount of latitude that ToS can have.
No, I’m not fishing for questions—just sharing an interesting milestone!