Your point is well taken. Yet be it Mr. Sun or someone else it seems a weakness to DPoS which requires further development.
We can only be grateful to @ned's incompetence to have lowered the pre-mined stake down to its present 21-ish% from over 50% in the early years. 😎
It is absolutely true that time was on the side of decentralization. The community wouldn't be exerting this much influence without the inflation doing its job all these years.