Great ideas are worth nothing if executed by bad individuals 🙈. Covid showed it extremely well. The decentralization is indeed a facade, for every decentralized aspect they have ways to override it nationaly and voting results are ignored or misinterprered.

The technocrat politicians always get what they want, they repeat until they win - e.g. the majority in 🇨🇭 voted against a swiss electronic id, but the parliament just drafted another electronic id instead - under a different name. We now have to recollect enough signatures so that the citizens get to vote. Collecting signatures for such a "Referendum" is a lot of work, unpaid voluntary work. The technocrats have an easy way to game the system via bruteforce.