Yes I watched the speeches at the announcement and it looked like a press conference in an over-sized hall.
My peers here are beginning to tire of FB - some of them, and apparently kids don't spend time there but use FBs other platform - Instagram. And we all still use FBs other platform WhatsApp. So one way or the other FB owns the social media platforms still. And now they are becoming a bank or remittance service with their own coin for payments via WhatsApp, so many more will be sucked into the FB black hole. Very few of my peers know of Steemit or even of crypto. I can count them on one hand.