We are now seeing the ICOs of the new decade, it's no longer self-made projects grab money from investors to then let them fail and close shop, now we have big money getting involved, the banks, and governments trying to get their piece of the cake.
That is BloxRoute (to name one) looks like to me, a new project launched for a private company to do that same that they've always, but now with blockchain, the problem is that they will have full control (in time), so what is the point of using them instead of a regular private network? They aren't trying to solve the economic problems and the vulnerabilities in the blockchain tech, their "solution" is only something momentary, and it only serves THEIR needs.
Banks must be eager as well to jump in and use their reputation to keep using their customer money as theirs.
You have a point, it's one reason why I will stay away from anything centralized, government can't help and even if they find their ways into blockchain technology they will only take control and reap people off, decentralized is the answer to everything, even if Central bank released their own coin I don't see any reason to use yet, as for me I don't want anything to do with the government