I don't think anyone out of Jake, Richard, or Jack are as transparent as their communities would like them to be. They all have some financial incentive, likely more than the average investor because of sunk cost efforts, to personally profit from these projects and end up covering up/ignoring any blatant displays of objective self-interest by portraying themselves as some benevolent tech savant who knows everything better than you, and when they get called out, they dodge questioning or commit to some kind of logical fallacy in their response.
Richard and Jake have to be particularly careful with their wording to avoid legal issues. This is obviously a sign that some part of their product could (likely, let's be real here) be used unfairly to their own advantage.
Jack will tell you all day how he's all about fair crypto, and to his credit the Xen token itself appears to be considered fair by most, but he won't tell you why for example XENFTs were designed to call self-destruct on the VMUs when they could have been used for re-minting.
It is what is, the builders will always have an advantage over users in this space, they control the narrative, the code, and the art of the grift.
