decision to force a fee market is a centralized solution
On it's face this is a nonsense argument since any development decisions are centralized in the same manner.
Increase the blocksize, decrease the blocksize, or leave it alone, they are all (centralized) development decisions.
It's also false that anything is really centralized about it because if there were truly a consensus for change (over the objections of the 'centralized' developers) there would be a successful fork.