"...if enough people stake enough for it to be fairly decentralized?"
Mathematically, that can only happen if the OG sell them tokens.
"I want to see fair play and equal opportunities and not shadow banning alternative media users and other regular folk just because they have dissenting opinions or even rob them of their donation for their content. Quality be on the eye of the beholder."
I think most of the Hive community also wants that. I do. I contend with HW, witnesses, flaggots, and all and sundry at every opportunity that those are the purposes Hive is suited to serve, and by serving those purposes can attain to the value and prominence potential to it.
Because I do that I don't get permaflagged anymore, I guess.
I dunno about new chains. Keep me posted if you ferret something out.