Nope. Most crypto projects that are fully decentralized from the beginning have failed and will fail. In the real world it's really difficult to have a decentralized system that actually produces high quality service.

It's much more easier to let founders have the control over project until the technology is advanced and there is real community that can get shit done. There is no benefit of giving power to newbies who do not have any idea how the system works or how to develop it. Many times they don't even share the same long term vision.

Steem is fully capable of decentralization in later phases of development. Only thing that is needed is to sell or give away steems that Steemit, inc. owns.