This is all such short sighted thinking. Of course the current control system isn’t going to allow a dramatic shift towards decentralization and privacy.

We are trying to integrate a new system into a dying one and there is going to be a time period of wierd growing pangs while it gets figured out.

In the end, we still have Bitcoin. If payment censorship continues to worsen, we can always revert back to base layer Bitcoin and simple lightning channels.

We still have the ability to say fuck off if rulers want to overstep. In that way it’s different than a cbdc