No, I actually want that. There are use cases where it can really improve things - best example is the local translation feature in Firefox. Would you really rather have no translations, or ones that go through a server?

This also seems like a useful feature.

But they’ve been told to distrust anyone who could deliver that education!

You know they won’t learn a damn thing from this

Most commercial non-crypto blockchains I’ve seen only have a couple of nodes connected, usually held by a single entity. In these cases it’s no less centralised than any alternative write-only DB.