Ethereum with its universal machine is just a disaster, an exemplary case of a very bad design choice,
it was perfect design choice, you are only mistaken about the purpose. ethereum was never meant to be "universal machine" it was just their advertising technique. the reality was ethereum was a premined coin with a big ICO to make the creators of it millionaires overnight. the design was chosen in that way to give it that short term advantage and hype to get the biggest pumps.the developers have to be really stupid to not know seconds apart blocks will lead to a bloat of nearly 3 TB blockchain!
I liked the sense of humor
BTW, I think the scamming part was not a design-purpose from the first day. "They" should have talked to Vitalik's dad and convinced him for the scam, initially it was a trivial "generalization" idea to replace the bitcoin's automata with a Turing-complete machine, a very bad design choice for a consensus-based decentralized system, IMO.