So I’d frame it this way: - Cheap to validate, expensive to…

So I’d frame it this way:
- Cheap to validate, expensive to coordinate. Bitcoin optimizes for universal, low-cost verification (anyone can run a node) and relies on social/economic consensus to coordinate upgrades. That makes rapid change hard and contentious change risky—by design.
- Decentralization isn’t headcount; it’s who can credibly veto. Dispersed economic nodes plus miner competition mean no small coalition can reliably push invalid rules if enough verifiers refuse them. That veto power—backed by the credible threat of exit—constrains governance even when forks are rare.