Your seperate PoS concerns of centralization (whether valid or not) at most make it as 'evil' as any other centralized service.
I don't think you should give them too much credit for a switch to PoS that hasn't actually happened yet. There's no intermediate benefit of "planning to switch."
The switch has already started. The PoS validators are already running. The time it is taking is just to make sure that the transition occurs safely and that there are enough diversity of clients and stakers in the network.
2. If it's just as bad as what we have now, seems like a lot of effort for no reason right?
Yeah but we're only talking about validations and mining. PoS gets rid of mining, but it's still the case that Ethereum is a very expensive distributed consensus system based on validation nodes. And again, for what reason?
As an aside: do you run a node?
> As an aside: do you run a node?
Hah is this some reference to PoW miners coming out swinging against PoS to protect their mining infrastructure investments?
1. Of course not
2. This is a great demonstration of how centralized these "decentralized" networks are; people are even worried about the PoW miner lobby.
I was intentional in lumping crypto in with eugenics and phrenology, because they're all bad ideas that are super harmful for humanity. That's how bad climate change is!
But more broadly, this is just another example of a crypto person crying ignorance or ad hominem rather than having any cogent arguments or new information. The tech isn't that hard to understand. We get it. It is actually just bad.