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Non-whales get the same rate of return as whales and it's much easier to enter the staking market than mining.

Yes, but I think the “whales” comment was a reference to the large upfront cost of staking in ETH2. At the moment a single validator requires depositing USD equivalent of $94,399.36 (32 ETH).

Mining requires pooling and not surprisingly staking does too.

Which makes it only further centralized.

Staking pools can be decentralized or centralized. For Eth2 to have a bright decentralized future, it's important that decentralized staking pools can emerge and thrive.

The Rocket Pool protocol, for example, allows for decentralized pooling: https://medium.com/rocket-pool/rocket-pool-staking-protocol-...

You can stake via a pool, which greatly lowers the capital floor for participating.

Less affluent users could use a staking pool, where they send some of their eth and get a certain percentage return.

Many crypto-exchanges already offer this service.

Staking pools, e.g. https://www.rocketpool.net/