there are many projects trying (tried) to take decentralization seriously, but ... drumroll it's fucking hard, and then they usually end up with some unusable piece of shit, due to the horribly misaligned incentives, easy money running out (or easy money pivoting to some even more insane project, cue network state)

There's distrust but greater apathy. I have multiple friends who identify as leftists and could tell me how big corporations are bad all day long. We talk on Facebook Messenger because it's too much effort for them to move to something else. It's really bizarre, honestly, I've had multiple conversations of "you're the only person I talk to on Facebook" but zero interest in moving to something except Discord.