I think you're wrong. The last airdrop WAS botched, but don't throw the baby out with the bathwater.

Regular people don't even know what decentralized means. And the goal is to get to regular people. Regular people aren't scared to show their ID to a legit company like Jumio.

It takes time to reach the next inflection point, and that's what we're waiting on right now.

Ripple is basically the reference point here. Ripple is 60% undistributed and also still has centralized validators.

Byteball is an app (bot) platform. The relevant metric is the quality of the bots in the bot store. Right now I would describe them as promising, not great. But fortunately building bots is easy, and many more are surely on the way.