A centralized decentralized currency, eh?
It's always been that way.
Give people a distributed mining setup and they give away their freedom, security, and self-dependence for a reduction in variance.
Give people a working peer2peer currency and they beg for a central bank to take away their freedom, security, and self-dependence.
Most people are so used to being abused they don't want the abuse to stop. It's all they know.