> and between centralisation and distribution of responsibility has never been resolved.

Its never been resolved because people try to have their cakes and eat it too. There's pros and cons to both ways, but people refuse to deal with the cons. Dealing with that in my current org, where a decision was made to distribute a specific subset of responsibilities, and as soon as it gets even a little difficult, they start centralizing again (within that subset), even when there's solutions to the problems.

So we end up in this weird kind of Frankenstein organization, and that's the worse of all worlds.