"Kings and dictators can also deploy new features faster than democracies, and they don't need to negotiate with anyone. Thus autocratic societies are simply better." This is literally how you and Moxie sound to everyone rational when you spout these opinions on centralization.

Nobody as far as I know, is arguing that a dictator ran software can't effect change faster. We are simply arguing that we would rather take a less effective system that has to compromise on certain aspects, over a unpalatable centralized solution. These arguments about 'We want the greatest amount of privacy for the largest number of people' are straight out of Plato's Republic.