You're completely right. Depending on the polls, it could be worthwhile finding a way to combine centralised and decentralised structures, either having them in parallel or one as a structural part of the other.
For me it's not about being first.-What I'd really like to see, is some blockchain community taking decentralisation seriously and being at the front of innovation instead of copying recipes, which have worked in the past but have a lot of difficulties in coping with our fast-moving world - IMO.