Finally, some common sense.

There's some weird psychology of tech circles that keeps us focused on decentralization. Often it just seems like bikeshedding rather than problem-solving. My guess is the Social Media generation has become wary of people controlling their lives, preferring autonomy. They hear about network decentralization, and then come to the conclusion that it must be better than the alternative, because the alternative is centralization, which is Google and Facebook (but never Apple apparently, which is pretty ironic).