I think Ari's right - this is about The Grid more than it's about Second Life - why are we still conflating the two when LL made it clear ages ago they see them (or perhaps market them?) as two connected yet separate entities?

Do 'Immersive Workspaces' (which has to be one of the clumsiest-sounding product names ever) run within SL or on a wider grid? Who would even want them to run within SL - so your AGM is attended by a clutch of naked noobs, a Gorean day-tripper and a Gnu - you'd have to be crazy?

SL will become one of LL products and will probably continue in a very similar vein to the one it already occupies, it makes money so why would they change it? They simply need more strings to their bow and are moving in that direction.

Maybe after all its our myopia, not Linden's, that can't see the way forward?