I understand. I've set up a few tribes for people. It is far from turnkey. It's expensive, time-consuming, and manual. I just read about out post, which is tribes 2.0, which sounds promising. I voted for Hive Engines proposal as well. So I'm all for Hive-engine or anyone for that matter being the first to offer cheap, easy plug-and-play tokenized communities.
It actually has nothing to do with centralization, Hive Engine in its own right it's pretty decentralized, some pain points but they are addressing it with the smart contract SMT over scotbot etc. They will get there I'm sure. This is 100% about user experience.
With that said, SPK network will have tokens, and that technology can be applied to layer 1 on Hive if the community decides for it. They will be much better than SMTs, and resemble more of what BTS can do, there are "Smart Tokens" whereas PoB is just 1 programmable feature.
That sounds promising. A modular system would indeed be a step beyond what a basic tokenized community would require.