Anyone trying to frame this idea as worrying is trying to grift using science.

The idea in itself will never impact you personally. Most likely.

See, it's just a model for understanding how information systems work, and you can model the entire universe as an information system which could be identical to what happens around event horizons. It could be a big deal for people trying to understand how all this formed and where we came from, if you're curious about that kind of thing and have learned a bit about entropy and time and space and event horizons it's a pretty remarkable idea.

But the most realistic thing that will come from it is just more questions, even if it's true.

Best case: we learn that there are connections in time/space that we never were aware of or can use this model to predict particular kinds of spacetime effects and could figure out things like why space is expanding. Wildly best case: we figure out something about gravity we never considered and you get your goddamn hoverboards. Better late than never.