No one is saying that decentralized compute platforms are a problem. Torrents, IPFS, seti.home etc... were quite popular. It's blockchain that is the problem.

No one is saying that decentralized compute platforms are a problem. Torrents, IPFS, seti.home etc... were quite popular. It's blockchain that is the problem. It is the inherent massive massive waste and inefficiencies in that technology that prompts everyone to say that there are more efficent ways to do it, and in the end something that can do the same thing more efficiently is better.