That's exactly it. We take it for granted that in simpler human-run ledgers accountability is easier to do. Accounting has all these checks and balances designe

That's exactly it. We take it for granted that in simpler human-run ledgers accountability is easier to do. Accounting has all these checks and balances designed to place blame on a single individual. Corporations obscure some of that blame but it still works in theory. A complex distributed system means that it can be almost impossible to determine what went wrong and that has some hugely dystopian outcomes.