> This was already described eloquently, and with examples, 4 years ago: https://medium.com/@kaistinchcombe/decentralized-and-trustle... Why are these crypto maximalists still pretending it's a thing?

Because they don't agree with those conclusions.

That author is a dismissive ass - makes it hard to take his points seriously.

Like most anti-crypto authors he still misses the forest for the trees.

Trusting software is better than trusting humans because if the software is immutable you only have to trust it once! I don't know why so many people don't get this. When you trust human systems you have to keep trusting them forever, because humans are fickle and could decide to screw you at any time.

For starters, people have figured out how to run pretty solid and stable elections for while without needing anything but most basic technology. Also, if you have a society where no-one trust anyone, no amount of software will fix that. People can then just not accept the result of software and do what they please. Immutability is totally irrelevant at that point.

> Like most anti-crypto authors he still misses the forest for the trees.

Like most crypto-maximalists you've missed the point, the article, the trees, the forest, and the entire planet Earth

> Trusting software is better than trusting humans because if the software is immutable you only have to trust it once!

No. You don't trust it only once. You trust it every time you use it. And software doesn't magically appear, or grow on trees. It's created by the people who "are fickle and decide to screw you at any time".

It is very clearly described in the article that you missed. Technology does not make human systems obsolete.