I think this is misleading, because every 32 eth stake is considered a validator. If you look at the top depositors by entity, you see that there are just a few

I think this is misleading, because every 32 eth stake is considered a validator. If you look at the top depositors by entity, you see that there are just a few entities controlling most of the stake, i.e. there's only a few validator nodes with most of the stake: https://etherscan.io/dashboards/beacon-depositors https://etherscan.io/dashboards/beacon-depositors Also, the number of nodes doesn't actually matter that much. It's more important that people can run nodes.