Most of the blockchains developed in the past were rushed into existence. As with anything that is rushed, you tend to have foresight after the fact (all of the stuff you forgot about). You realize that you were missing features that you didn't know you needed. This isnt just a blockchain issue, its a fact of life for engineers in general.

We now know that a blockchain is just one part of a decentralized network and in order to further a decentralized network, you'll need tools. It seems like ODESI can be described as a set of tools. Hive account@andarchy said it best in this case. The first set of prebuilt tools that ODESI will create is "authentication" and "encrypted messaging".

This means that when ODESI goes live, the first thing you'll be able to do is log in and chat. And anyone who wants to leverage ODESI will be able to use those same tools to create an app that you can log into and chat. Expect it will be able to seamlessly connect to a blockchain.

I could imagine creating an app where its a simple chat program that uses ODESI "auth" to allow users to log in, and "encrypmsg" to create a secure method of chating and have all the text posted to a blockchain and the only way to access it is to have a superuser key. You know its secure and you know that the contents will be forever secured no matter if you lose your device or not. Well lets mutate this a few time and let the dices roll to see where we can go from there.

Developers gonna develop.