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To the developer, decentralization can be a benefit, or an annoying implementation hassle.

To the customer it is at best a feature. 99.99% of DNS or email users probably have no idea it's distributed and don't want to know.

Look at the marketing around the cloud: I'm pretty sure that 99.9999% of people who use the term never read its original use in the early TCP-Internet papers and RFC and no idea what the term really meant.