One theory I have is that the gravity of capital is pushing things towards a world where users pay for more and more web infrastructure costs. Decentralization

One theory I have is that the gravity of capital is pushing things towards a world where users pay for more and more web infrastructure costs. Decentralization, it appears, does not lead to democracy, but it does lead to less monolithic servers, and more shared mesh/edge computation. Just good business sense to offload computation on regular users, if the tech is there.