> People still don't understand cryptocurrencies, and at this point it seems more like intentional obtuseness for political reasons.

Your assumption that the only reason to hate cryptocurrencies is ignorance is not reasonable.

> in order to make them decentralized

"Decentralized" and "blockchain" are not synonyms. Blockchain technology is a wildly, insanely expensive way to decentralize an application: https://www.usenix.org/publications/loginonline/web3-fraud