Lol decentralization. Ethereum is probably one of the most decentralized crypto out there thanks to gpu only mining, which means those that used to mine with asics that are no longer profitable cannot simply mine ethereum instead.
Re bolded: no. They just hard forked based on a 20% miner vote. Among the 20% of miners that voted, there was significant opposition. The mining pools enforced the fork even though only a small minority of miners supported it. One of the mining pools even enforced the fork against the vote of its miners. Clearly mining is extremely centralized, and there is a major disconnect between true miner vote and the hashpower committed to the fork. In other words, a handful of pool admins overrode the entire mining economy and forced the fork based on a split minority vote. That suggests extreme levels of centralization -- mining pools, not miners, decide whether to fork, and they do so regardless of what miners actually vote for.
Add to that: all clients were set to fork by default. Meaning users had no say whatsoever in the fork unless they uninstalled their clients and reinstalled downgraded versions.
Extreme centralization. A handful of mining pool admins and client developers decided to fork. This had nothing to with the consensus of miners nor users.
If the blockchain can be made mutable on the basis of an insider minority vote -- and the vast majority of users/miners have no say (in a supposed "consensus" ledger) --
Ethereum is quite obviously one of the most centralized crypto out there.
