Maybe an analogy:

⚡️ If you fall from 200 feet you will break; this is proof of work. It’s tied within the physical realm through the use of electric energy; like gold is tied through physical its chemical composition.

🧠 PoS is like IMAGINING that you’re falling from 200 feet. It’s an abstraction or the individual or collective mind; and trying to get rid of that abstraction by logic (code) only, is not gonna work. It is controlled by definition, there is only the fallacy and the “decentralized” buzz word to make it feel like it. That is why we say is the fiat with different overlords (companies)