I don't think decentralization is the issue, after all most companies adopted Git eventually (or a forked and rewritten Mercurial in the case of Meta). It's jus

I don't think decentralization is the issue, after all most companies adopted Git eventually (or a forked and rewritten Mercurial in the case of Meta). It's just they did not feel the burning need the way some distributed teams like the Linux kernel team did. And Kragen is right that open-source communities vary widely in culture and processes. Linux has its email patch based workflow, as does Sourcehut. There is the popular pull request model invented or at least popularized by GitHub. OpenBSD still uses its bizarre CVS workflow and seems happy with it.