That will not change.
Decentralized “control” will evolve the same way Web2.0 (user generated content) did.
What Steemit is now and also in this post was blogging 2003-2009 (2005?).
History repeats itself and the internet isn’t different to that. It is even easy to state that until fiduciary duties came in play Google, Reddit, and Facebook were our biggest defendants.
Two companies alone mine 60% of BTC, with how much Steem is on market how easy do you think is it for those who want to burst that “decentralized control” bubble?
But I know what you mean and I fully agree. This place, like almost every other community (online) is what we make of it and will mean to us what we make its value (to ourselves).
Yet, let’s stay fully aware of realities and not be surprised once again. The Cambridge Analytica scandal was a non-scandal/non-event since long known since 2013 (2012?).