Honestly, you've kind of lost me, I'm not really sure what you are saying or driving at.

I was here when tens of thousands of people were posting. And there were no communities, and honestly the platform at large felt more cohesive and invested together in the common outcome of the furtherance of the Hive chain and ecosystem than I see now, and seemed to achieve more momentum as a whole in a lot of ways than it does now comprised as it is of ever more and more niched out silos. I simply believe both are possible.

And neither one have to do a whit with "decentralization" or "centralization", they have to do with shared and globally common purpose, keeping this chain vibrant, alive and thriving. Because people do that. A big collective lot of them that all want the same thing.

And to be honest, its been speculated by others I've seen here that SPL players in the majority, don't really even know this ecosystem exists beneath the game layer they play and came to engage with. That's fine, but if they don't participate in governance by witness selection or operation, and they don't participate in chain support by proposal voting or project creations of their own, and if they don't support the myriads of dapps that aren't games, then the core will rot out from under them... or disintegrate for the rest of us -- and then this place and chain will either be a dead end, or just another copycat card game with nothing else of value left attached to it.

Choose your destiny.