One of the ways the Californian Ideology won in tech is to make everyone a US Republican in their relationship with governance. So obsessed with decentralization (we’ll get it right this time!) that when centralization inevitably builds up no one knows how to manage it healthily, or even that it needs to be managed. And then a Matt Mullenweg happens and everyone is like “oh no, I have learned nothing from this other than that centralization is bad, we’ll get it right this time!”. Rinse, repeat.

It’s a perpetual motion machine of suck: ignore the role of governance, let it devolve to the worse people in the worst emergent structures, complain about how bad it is, try to get rid of it, ignore the role of governance in the new implicit centralization, and on we go.