You are technically correct... > decentralization isn’t really a boon Narrowly true. On its own, decentralization isn’t good or bad. In an ecosystem like ours

You are technically correct... > decentralization isn’t really a boon Narrowly true. On its own, decentralization isn’t good or bad. In an ecosystem like ours, where most tools and services assume centralized architecture, it’s probably net bad. But here’s a hypothesis for you: In an ecosystem where decentralization was the default, decentralization would be a boon. There’s a chicken and egg problem there, but I just wanted you to understand why I think decentralization is worth thinking about, even though I can see, as you do, that it is objectively the wrong way to solve almost any isolated problem. I am building decentralized software, where there is no database, no global namespace, no source of truth, etc. My assumption is I’ll have to redesign everything, from basic authentication to employee workflows to accounting strategies in order for it to pay off. The reason I’m trying is I suspect it has very recently become technically feasible to take on a scope like that for a well-enough defined business logic. I.e. a “vertical slice” where all aspects of the business are radically decentralized. The downside being you can’t use any off the shelf software or development tools whatsoever.