FWIW, Gregory Maxwell also believed that satoshi's design was fundamentally and irredeemably broken. And these are the 'geniuses' that so much of the community choose to follow.
It is broken. He even said it was impossible to create a decentralized digital currency before bitcoin came out but got fooled by the whitepaper koolaid. It is still 100% impossible to create a decentralized digital currency, i.e. anything remotely resembling a Nash equilibrium instead of just a power vacuum to be completely monopolized.