Bitcoin being too open to interpretation is kinda the reason for this ideological war. It used to be more tightly defined in the past, and now it’s loose to a point of lefty wokism.

Making some research on affordability of hardware is a good exercise for benchmarking purposes. Asfik no one has done a thorough analysis of how affordable hardware is now compared to 5 or 10 years ago. Affordability scope is a good measure for decentralisation scale. Currently we only look at metrics like hash rate growth or sheer node count, that are not reliable for the intended purposes.