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No it isn't. Centralized architectures are centralized not because a Bond villain in his lair wants a stranglehold on your communication but because they are the most efficient. Brittle maybe, but efficient. There's only one possible path that any message can take from spoke to spoke and it's via the hub. Any other architecture computational power and bandwidth has to be spent on discovering a path first and it grows exponentially with the number of hops required.