Yeah. It's heartbreaking. The same integrity that led him to be such a visionary with what tiny time he had, also led him not to bend to the system, which then hesitated not an instant to destroy him.
All I'm saying is it's okay to be a visionary and also pick your battles and be strategic. But I'm not trying to say he did wrong. If you have to pick one or the other, sticking to your guns to the end is better than giving up on the visionary stuff when it gets real. A thousand times over.
Edit: And, for some reason I don't really understand, Alexei Navalny gets a pass to me, for going back to Russia when he surely knew he'd probably be killed. I think the difference is that Navalny didn't have a middle path. But... IDK. Maybe he, like Swartz, just thought my "middle path" was a bunch of bullshit, and wanted no part of it.