...but with something so disruptive, a lot of parties will fight to keep their power.

Certainly they will. They are not going to just give up the power. Of course, didnt Blockbuster, record companies, and physical stores fight to keep what they had? How did that work out?

i'm still very invested in the benefits of crypto, but even now we're seeing traditional institutions attempting to gain ownership, or control its path, and crypto tokenomics by themselves seem ill equipped to solve all the problems.

They are taking control of Bitcoin, not crypto. Digital assets are being created on a daily basis. They are coming in all forms, not only as "cryptocurrencies" as we frequently refer to them. Of course, even there we are seeing more tokens, more projects, more of everything. With so much already open source, the ability to fork makes it impossible to control it all.