Anyone who knows how the internet works looks at a lot of the lofty promises decentralization proposes and says 'that's just the internet we already have with extra steps you want me to pay for so we can pretend we've reinvented something.'

It always goes right back to infrastructure and infrastructure isn't just expensive, it's centralized. Decentralization was an illusion promised by people who either didn't know how things worked, or wanted your money and were willing to bend the truth hard.