Great, perfect! I thought about this while writing the article. So, here’s where it’s coming from…
In previous iterations of discourse about the Kitely service model, there has been the occasional concern that Kitely regions are not equivalent to other grids’ regions because they shut off when no one is using them. There is also the mixed set of issues regarding the legitimacy of some Kitely regions for region counting purposes, and relevant aspects of that are also addressed here, although it would take a separate article to fully explore the entire set of concerns in that regard.
This article is also for anyone who hasn’t used Kitely because it is an on-demand service, which can cause doubt as to whether Kitely regions function just like regions in grids that are “always-on”.
But, as you point out, for many, Kitely has always seemed completely functionally equivalent to any other service, aside from specific features like Hypergrid access, and the points made in the article probably read as givens, rather than revelations.