Well in the business world there is a reason that the corporate structure is the way that it is. Sure there could be some redundancies, and some more than others, however, there needs to be some serious structure and hierarchy in order to really get anything done. Vitalik Buterin himself recently tweeted that the ideal crypto structure for a project is centralized at first while building initially and then exit stage left to community. There is often a trade off between centralized and speed. IE the less centralized the slower things tend to move.
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