bitcoin gold is a stupid idea and bitcoin [whatever] will be the same. It will not solve decentralization in mining. At the end of the day, centralization will still happen with a country with the cheapest electricity, manpower and coldest climate, ie currently China or any upcoming power. Thats the downside of POW irregardless you use ASICS, GPU or CPU. ASICS is just making it worst. It's as simple as that.

The way I see it, we haven't really made much progress after bitcoin and ethereum. Some coins are better while all the others are simply crap, cloning after cloning. Its all greed and power and cloning bitcoin is the greediest and least effort to become rich overnight. But this its causing a lot of harm to the crypo industry and reputation. All legitimate potential alt coins project couldn't take off because everyone is re-investing in bitcoin again waiting for new fork and getting free money. The crypto market is controlled by traders who again don't really care about the future and innovation. Driven by greed, they can lower the confidence of good coins overnight by affecting the price for a long time. sad. period.

Technological revolution comes with heavy responsibilities. Greedy people just destroy the ecosystem. I don't believe you can be totally free from central governance and we are now seeing the side effects of it.