Yes, totally agree. This is the main trade off.

I am not (and don’t want to be) a client developer so a lot of the innovation I can experiment with on the relay side is inherently centralized.

The good news is the data is public so users don’t have to blindly trust our counts, they can verify themselves. I think we will continue to see an increase in the availability of caching/archival services so that at least there are many sources of truth.