It is a very challenging book, worthy of your time. And I don't disagree with you or the authors points here at face value.

But often he leans this way towards speculative thinking around centralization being a "good thing" for Bitcoin in terms of NGU/stability (these are besides the point of Bitcoin imo, but do help). To such a degree that it's hard to not take much of what he says as sub-textual advocation for such things .