I know we survived without government support and can survive without it but What are your thoughts on the direction we heading?
Now let's start with the obvious fact basically decentralization and privacy is on a losing streak currently this is because government controls literally a lot of things and that includes how centralization is being expressed generally. They are just a few privacy and decentralization enthusiasts out there and they are quite limited in most of their actions take a look at exch like you mentioned.
Also for the aspect of privacy take a look at monero for example literally no CEX accepts monero currently and that is basically the play of the government since they can't control something as private as that.