Regardless if you agree or disagree, you have to admit that even if Ripple becomes the first world-wide usable cryptocurrency, it's still good for spreading the crypto culture in the world. More people become knowledgeable, start adopting it, etc.
Regardless what we think! They are doing their job well, news about
new Ripple contracts with banks and financial institutions can be seen
almost every week.
You can check my topic, started a month ago about Ripple:
-https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2954561.msg30320139#msg30320139
You can check some of my insights. Maybe creator of this thread should
check is there some similar thread before opening new one, mine is not
the only one. In one hand that reflects growing interest in Ripple. Maybe they
are centralized but that suits to banks and still majority of earth population
have at least one account in one bank!