Some aspects of the h have to be sacrifice
In order to make a project more innovative. A project is more more on DECENTRALIZED if it's requires decission to be made by numerous entities and people. If there is no central control or no central system that runs the operation, it is amore decentralized project. Project required Strong learnership that is able to make decisions to ensure the project moves forward. Some project need to be politically centralised in order to ensure growth and in order to ensure the right people are contributing to the projects.
Therefore there are many instances to promote more or or offered some technically to moves forwards some of the projects and ensure the correct people belong the team.made by decentralized method before progress starts.
This has nothing to do with politics/society. i.e. wrong section.
However, nothing is black and white. You can have both if a project is setup to achieve that. Decentralized projects can have plenty of progress. But they tend to move slower as there are competing opinions and ideas and they have to reach a consensus of the majority. They tend to focus on building a solid base with certain ideals from which they will make money as opposed to money being the first priority. A project run by a group is answerable only to themselves and they tend to end up corrupt. More often than not they are setup to make themselves rich by using all those they convince to be part of it.
This is no different than a government. Do you want to live under a dictatorship or a free society. It's the same with a project. Do you want to have a "real say" or just be a pawn for them. The answer to that comes down to your goals. If all you care about is making money then go right ahead and get involved with stuff you have zero say in.
The vast majority of people on here only care about money which is why it has become a cesspool of scams and get rich quick schemes. So everyone that complains about those things should take a good look in the mirror since you're all the ones that have brought it about.