I'm several steps removed from day-to-day engineering at this point; the team working on this is much better than I am. It's just a very hard problem; biting it off is something you can certainly blame me for, though.
(Also: not a legend, just loud.)
I may be the minority on this view, but I think that it's possible to be both a recognized expert aka legend and loud ("visible" might be a kinder word).
When you talk technology, I listen, and I doubt I'm alone in that. Keep up the good work with fly.io!