I believe what awaits centralized networks will be extremely shocking, especially considering the vast amount of data held by owners of these networks, particularly concerning privacy. We won't have to wait long to see scandals popping up here and there. In my view, something is quietly brewing in parallel with ongoing struggles and wars in the world, and I don't think the decline will be gradual but rather catastrophic.

You can call it a 'theory,' but I strongly believe in it.

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Has the end of X approached?

We all agree on the value and importance of decentralization, that's out of question. I'm just arguing that it will not kill centralized services. The description you make of them falling as dominoes do not reflect on historical examples of which there are many, netscape being the most blatant: it's like if google, the mother of web centralized services, was to disappear today without anything but one sole centralized competitor (which should fall too immediately after by your theory). Following your theory it should have been a world-ending scenario, and reality wasn't remotely close to that.