Or the other option which is the much less glamorous route of improving the visibility, accountability and transparency of centralized control, rather than writ

Or the other option which is the much less glamorous route of improving the visibility, accountability and transparency of centralized control, rather than writing it off as a lost cause from first principles. This is especially relevant given that every decentralized system is actually an illusion, a merely temporary state of transition from one centralized regime to the next.