ETH, and any cryptocurrency for that matter, has never been “decentralized” in terms of development. There are always a few guys making all major decisions, and it’s hard to oppose them other than making a forked currency.
This is not true. I am one of the maintainers of https://github.com/prysmaticlabs/prysm, one of the main client implementations of eth2 today. My team is unaffiliated with the Ethereum Foundation. There are also 3 other client implementations of the protocol that are very robust and done by independent teams in different parts of the world. We also can't force users to accept all our changes, and development on ETH's infrastructure has indeed been trending towards more decentralization. There are few blockchains out there today with more than 1, production-quality client implementation.
