I think there is a common conflation of distributed and decentralized concepts; Many (most?) distributed systems require a consensus mechanism to operate (as th

I think there is a common conflation of distributed and decentralized concepts; Many (most?) distributed systems require a consensus mechanism to operate (as they require coordination/state), but many decentralized(most?) systems don't, as each node operates independently and without a transitive state. As such, I have some difficulty in seeing PoS/PoW as "decentralized" (in a decentralized system, multiple different "end states" may coexist without being a problem), but rather more of a reputation model as a way to solve BFT. And BFT consensus mechanisms are - in my opinion - only one of several possible mechanisms, because (again, imo) "blockchain" and "public blockchain" make different assumptions on the underlying implementation.