Make Ethereum cypherpunk again

https://vitalik.eth.limo/general/2023/12/28/cypherpunk.html

Everything built should be built to not depend on the social layer. No matter how strong and effective the social layer is the probability of it degrading is non 0 and only increases with time.

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The problem is that building things to rely solely on incentives is in many cases impractical. A purely in-protocol automated system has no way to "pay people to be decentralized".

"has no way" your mind seems made up about it.
The forces at play are knowable quantities.
A problem to consider with the virtuous ethereum non-financialized governace is that it lacks analytical transparency. You can't prove that it is not a cartel. It is objectively indistinguishable from decentralization theater.

I feel like I've been trying for a decade to solve centralization issues with in-protocol economic means, and it always end up coming up short.

Meanwhile, core devs yelling at people for using [overly powerful thing here] plus Twitter sentiment pointing in the same direction... actually works.