Another way to look at it is to understand that it is actually completely decentralised, like actually really. No-one is in control, nor can anyone claim that status. It's completely in the hands of it's own stakeholders, even more so than Bitcoin, which is practically in the hands of mining pool operators. What other blockchain can claim that? It has sure been hard to find any kind of direction for development, but it's starting to form. Bitshares is overcoming the problems other blockchains haven't even bumped into yet.