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> So is it that decentralization is impossible to achieve or that it's achievable, but undesirable? I feel like I'm being gaslighted by the IETF.

While reading this, I tried to apply what they mention at the beginning of the Centralization and Decentralization sections, that is that both are continuums.

They try to quantify this using "centralization risk". For some functions, greater decentralization might be not worth the effort, is actually undesirable, or even impossible due to technical reasons. For others, these are in greater number, everything should be done to prevent centralization.