[illiarian]

In addition to my other comment:

> In fact, I'd argue you just care about having enough copies of the off-chain data that you feel well insulated from data loss, so I'm not sure that the off-chain data needs to actually be decentralized.

Remember how it all started? "The [government] staff still does what they do today, but they no longer need to maintain their own database and IT application."

And now they need to maintain "enough copies of the off-chain data" anyway and deal with blockchain.