I thought the idea was to have less middlemen?

No, its that there is no middlemen, but the function that the middlemen were doing gets done and now the profit he was making can go to the users and creators.

> and now the profit he was making can go to the users and creators

Conveniently using this speculative investment that I own a lot of and you don't as the payment currency!

Sounds suspiciously like you're moving the middlemen around not removing them if a bunch of other people are being paid to do the same job.

No, there are no people being paid for the job, the job is automated so the profit of that job can go to other people not the middlemen. Kind of the opposite of how everything works right now where you get free as in beer software that becomes infrastructure and then starts to exploit that in every possible way.