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Are they? I know it's possible but I can't think of a single use where traditional software and/or contracts are more convenient.

What does Ethereum with no PoW bring to the table?

The only thing I can think of is that the data you store is still distributed across multiple servers and can’t be removed or tampered with easily.

That's what every distributed database in the world does.

Centralization which is what they want