Some 'defi' approaches do seem to provide things you don't get elsewhere - mainly visible with DEXs where to transact you only have to trust an application for

Some 'defi' approaches do seem to provide things you don't get elsewhere - mainly visible with DEXs where to transact you only have to trust an application for that one operation at that one moment and you can read all the code of the operation and be certain that's what's happening. You genuinely don't get that elsewhere.