It took us just a few posts to end up @ "But muh <fav-alt>".
Disclaimer. I too have a fav-alt, lol.
Not all altcoins are total corporate crap.
How about the original altcoin, Litecoin?
Decentralization, limited supply, peer-to-peer networking, proof of work, and total lack of any company or other organization, no pre-mining?
Yep. No problem. It's still not Bitcoin though.
Ethereum? Halfway there. It may not be totally corporate bit it
is premined and unlimited and when it goes from POW to POS it becomes a complete POS.