I doubt it's the "ideal" solution, but I do feel it's the "best" we currently have. You also need to remember that bitcoin is upgradable. If in the future we f

I doubt it's the "ideal" solution, but I do feel it's the "best" we currently have. You also need to remember that bitcoin is upgradable. If in the future we find better ways of doing distributed trust, and we can prove it, that doesn't mean that bitcoin is done and gone. If the vast majority of the users of bitcoin believe a change to whatever other "distributed trust" system that is better, the network can be upgraded to take advantage of it.