I went and enjoyed it a lot. The variety of the exhibitions was great (personally I loved the watercolor pen plotter) and the age of the exhibitors - both very young and old, was delightful.
It's disappointing that they only talked to one Kiva partner. If it is truly the case that the new model is widely preferable to the old model for the partner agencies, why is the evidence so weak? Instead, it just reads as if the example was just cherrypicked to allow the author to segue into a discussion about the Western lenders being out of touch with reality.