Blocktrades is definitely not the only one developing on hive, and he is completely unable to influence the majority of votes with his stake, while Justin Sun is the only vote that matters on Steem.

I disagree with you about dPoS. Your arguments also means that all PoS are also not decentralized, which is also wrong.

Nothing is decentralized as much as bitcoin is. This we can agree on. And it is much easier for governments to apply pressure on a dPoS system, I agree with that too. Doesn't mean it's not decentralized though, the hive fork proved it.

Communities run software in the end, and people can choose to run nodes or not.