"The only thing I look forward to with drones is the erosion of centralized food suppliers..."

I think this gives short shrift to the very broad potential applications of drones, and particularly quadcopter private transportation of actual people. There are very desirable security capabilities potential, especially for surveillance purposes. Think of gang members making crack having a drone or ten out to watch for SWAT teams, or rival gangs, for example. Or a neighborhood watch looking for car thieves. Drones would not only enable detecting thieves scouting, but also enable discouraging those thieves without subjecting any Daniel Penny's to lawfare by leftists. Going forwards robust drone capabilities in the hands of the public dramatically increase the power to resist tyranny and criminal depredations wielded as a sword to degrade civil society by Commies, which is obviously the purpose of catch and release DA's funded by George Soros et alia. Additionally, not only transport, but actual tending of crops, weeding, applying fertilizers, and perhaps even shooting individual insects with lasers, for example, in addition to picking only perfectly ripe fruit one at a time, all become possible with automated drones and drone swarms. I think it would be very fun to take manual control of a microdrone with a 100W laser and fly out to wage war on a swarm of locusts, or an infestation of hornworms, or something, but just being able to automate transforming a swarm of locusts into fertilizer would be a game changer for agriculture, and scale down much better than up, a feature of decentralization that improves individual sovereignty.

It's really hard to run out of conceivable uses for private drones that improve civilian sovereignty and prosperity while reducing corporate and governmental power.
Transportation is a very good example, because commuting to work above traffic jams would add hours to the day of many people, especially in leftist hellholes like LA and Chicongo.

This technology is just beginning. While the FAA and corporate overlords won't permit such a craft to have .50 BMG's mounted on it, it would be extremely difficult to prove an adjacent swarm of drones that did have .50's mounted on them were owned by the pilot of that one quad. This dramatically deprecates the power of road pirates to oppress civilians, brightening our future.

Many, many AI softwares suitable for almost all hardware capabilities and levels are in the wild today. While commercial drones have very restrictive software, FOSS drone software can be as liberating as the private drone manufacturer wants it to be. When laser arrays, microwave moats, and even CRISPR'd carnivorous social insect swarms are added to the potential payloads of drone swarms, the ability of armed thugs to project force against civilians rapidly dwindles to almost nothing. Imagine wasps that are genetically modified to accept C&C hardware that enables being controlled by security AI for your home. Because wasps feed on insect pests, you could combine pest control for your crops as the food source for your home security patrol drones, requiring only inserting a chip you printed during the metamorphosis from larva to adult wasp, and a little processing power to run the security system. All the hardware required for this is table top right now, not some science fiction, requiring only some software and CRISPR development to bring to fruition.

Not only would your home security system be able to deny even gangs of armed thugs ingress to your property, but that armed gang would provide fuel to run your security system, because wasps are carnivorous. Adding that capability to private home security requires a whole new industry of military armament, with weapons grade raid being a standard issue to soldier's kits to enable gangs of armed thugs to penetrate your security system. However, that wouldn't do much about the ability of wasps to provide patrol and surveillance capabilities. Given the ability of a swarm of wasps controlled by AI to coordinate targeting of lasers mounted on automated inorganic drones (50x 100w lasers focused on a target equals 5 kilowatts of laser power, as does 500x 10w, etc.), or any of a myriad of other security techs, weapons grade Raid wouldn't solve the problems gangs of armed thugs would face when this tech is employed, and the diversity of security tech adopted by decentralized civilians would be impossible to solve with a standardized kit. Centralized control of free civilians that make their own security tech becomes impossible very quickly.

IMHO, this is the future of private drones, not package deliveries.