One of my favorite military-SF anthologies was There Will Be War, which iirc Pournelle edited. His CoDominium and Janissaries works were also good reads, and he had some wonderful collaborations with Larry Niven.
There's a difference between hotels (which have limited damages guest are capable of, which are insured against same, and which have protocols for handling these issues) and somebody renting out a room in their home/apartment.
Remember, you're effectively inviting over people into your home. Your safe space. Your nest. It seems really, really weird that somebody would do that without at least knowing what the person looks like.
And that's before you even get into the security issues of having to blindly trust AirBNB (or somebody claiming to be related to AirBNB) that this rando is authorized.
democratized millennial coddling of Silicon Valley
What does this even mean?
I'm sorry that you felt your time was wasted in meetings, but you seem to ignore the equally bad outcome of blindly chasing a direction and pissing off all the devs who actually had some foresight.
So, the obvious temptation here is to say "fuck it" and just leave a textbox for users to put in their address.
I cannot help but feel, though, that this is inviting ruin and disaster. I'm currently dealing with some of this myself--what's the best solution other than just forcing people to use a five-line US-stle address and hope for the best?
Rest well, sir.