The decentralization community has never been unified in its views, and a fair number of people have worked on these projects together with different personal motives. What tends to be the common denominator is a concern about unchecked power.

My perspective is that it's it's unavoidable to assign authority -- systems that claim to remove authority actually just obscure it -- and that it's more important to ensure the system has constrain power, creates transparency, and maintains the ability to reassign authority when the current operators lose trust. Ideally, this helps build trust in the people who do run a given system, while they're the ones with the job.