Customizability and centralization are in tension.

The things that make something customizable make it hard to handle in a scaled / levered fashion.

Centralization creates so much efficiency that as a user or maker you have to exert more effort to stand out from the gravity well of the cheap way everyone else is doing it.

Since centralization wins against customizability in each little micro paper cut decision, it keeps on compounding.

Before you know it, you get one-size-fits-all software for everyone all the time.

This happens even if people still want customizability.

The logic of aggregation simply gets so much momentum that it steamrolls everything else.

A net loss of value for the ecosystem.

Where's the hyper-customizable software for power users?