What this article is missing is the word "decouple". Cryptocurrencies decouple the many roles that are involved in maintaining and using a currency. It doesn't

What this article is missing is the word "decouple". Cryptocurrencies decouple the many roles that are involved in maintaining and using a currency. It doesn't "solve" governance issues, it breaks them into smaller issues that can be (and should be) tackled in isolation. Anyone who doesn't see this and argues "we should just go back to the way we were doing things before" is missing the point.