I haven't dug into this deeply, but to me CRDTs look like a P2P data structure abstracted to the programming language variable level. The article says they shine when you don't want a central server. But most communication libraries already handle authentication and multiple peers well — and if you designate one peer as canonical (via leader election), conflict resolution is solved. I'm curious what use cases make avoiding a central server worth the paradigm shift. That said, it's a choice of approach — some may prefer the CRDT paradig