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And of course the many other reasons: convenience, consistency, built-in integration with other development tools...

• goodpoint 4y ago
  ...none of which requires or justifies the centralization that has been created.
  • _se 4y ago
    Apparently, many people disagree with you; otherwise, we would not be in this situation. I agree that centralization is probably not a hard requirement for these properties, but currently no one has come up with decentralized equivalents that provide users what they actually want - and remember, you don't get to tell them what they want!