[hwhelan210]

I don't think what we're running into here is "human nature" so much as it is investor nature. I'm not particularly familiar with them, but Polkadot has raised $300M. There has to be some return for that investment (i.e. they need to be able to lock users into their ecosystem and prove to investors that a competitor can't come along and provide an equally valuable service without starting from scratch). How can a truly decentralized service / protocol compete with the companies that are getting that kind of investment?