Back in 2015, when I first entered the cryptocurrency market, the main slogan of cryptocurrency was that the user can always be anonymous and no one can control his financial affairs. But today there are a lot of questions about centralization and decentralization that change the whole rhetoric of relative cryptocurrency and its advantages.
I couldn't agree more, which is why I'm happy to be part of the Blocknet community. All these projects are using "dex" and "atomic swaps" as marketing terms and still have centralized components. They have done a huge disservice to the ecosystem by confusing people about what true decentralization is. Then when you bring up a project like Blocknet, they say why is that needed, when project XYZ already provides a DEX. Meanwhile what they don't know is project XYZ only has one component of the exchange decentralized, such as settlement using atomic swaps, and has no idea that the exchange is custodial or uses servers for order books and order matching. So now you have great projects fighting the good fight that are being overlooked due to cheap imitations misinforming users.