@dansup competition is good, Mastodon is an incredibly long way from perfect, and this article talks a hell of a lot about Jack Dorsey, who basically gave them some money one time and hasn’t shown any interest in the organisation since.
Even if it ends up being somewhere halfway between centralised and decentralised, so what? It’s just another platform that people can choose to use if they want to. It’s mostly just great to see new things being tried.