It's ok to be a private company, or hold majority stakes. Problem is when they advertise otherwise and preach decentralization. It is all about scamming people and getting themselves rich. Tron is a clear scam. Justin Sun has no clue what decentralization is. EOS is semi-scam, because Dan Larimer only cares about making himself rich while giving a good talk.
I like Vitalik. He seems to be honest, doesn't care much about money. There is someone who actually wants to make a difference for regular people, in my opinion. Rest of them are all scammers or semi-scammers. Then we have hive, where we have a lot of decent people with an ambition to build something amazing. There are many obstacles, but hopefully we will overcome them.
Sometimes it seems like only scammers can succeed in this space.
I fully agree with you and yes there are so many scams about in the crypto space but what I think is they only get ahead for so long, its very short lived and then the next one comes, but hopefully with time we can reduce that and educate people. The only reason we see it is because its so well documented, people are always calling out projects the moment they launch.
Compare that to fiat people get away with far more scams
What I try to be positive about is these scam coins bring capital into the space, create new code, new ideas, train up new devs and those skills, code and ideas arent lost when the scam dies, it gets absorbed into other projects but that's just me trying to see the silver line