People are mixing things on HIVE very often... The difference between decentralization of the network and distribution of tokens... The later is an issue on HIVE, but you can't blame whales for being whales...
But, this:
Together these 40 whales own 149 millions Hive Power or roughly 49% of all the staked hive in existence.
... is an issue... And even if we close an eye on bad distribution... Leveraging that power is having even more power (30 votes, infinite votes on proposals)... and that is a bigger issue...
Not sure what is a good or bad solution, but we need more discussion about these things, that's for sure... On the other side, I'm not sure that we are ready to talk about decentralization if we are not willing to give away part of our powers... And we humans are very bad at doing that... 😂
Thanks for the mention!
The present system makes decisions about governance very centralised but as you said it might be difficult to induce a new system that would ask to give away power to the people who would need to implement it...