Okay, but it's not 2001 anymore. Bittorrent was useful because parallelizing uploads across a broad network increased speed to a degree that content hosts could

Okay, but it's not 2001 anymore. Bittorrent was useful because parallelizing uploads across a broad network increased speed to a degree that content hosts couldn't manage. But that's not true anymore, most internet power-users are on broadband connections, many of which are symmetric, transfer speeds up or down are no longer a limiter that pushes people towards decentralization. So when considering a decentralized system like IPFS, the downsides of decentralization, like availability, edit control, and service support, are much more salient. There are a lot of things that "could work if everybody uses it". You can never get there if the thing isn't desirable compared to existing alternatives.