I have researched and read enough chains to know the old trap: you choose usability or privacy, almost never both. Midnight is the first design I have seen that truly rejects that compromise.
Rational privacy sounds cliché until you see that it allows apps to expose only what is necessary and seal the rest just as real systems should work, not that all or nothing they have accustomed us to.
What convinced me was the two-token model. NIGHT handles governance and value, but the real use burns DUST generated by holding NIGHT. That separation breaks the direct link between the token price and network costs, a headache that has killed more developer projects than I can count. That is not just better design.
It's practical infrastructure.