I don't understand what about this decentralized idea that f-droid is selling me ... that I'm supposed to LIKE here?

I develop apps, I get the downside of these centralized services for me, but I'm not sure what they're selling me as a user here.

They seem to sell me on privacy / censorship concerns, but I see no privacy benefits stated. I don't see any reason distributed stores are more privacy focused. China is their example? If anything that indicates the store itself is less of a potential privacy / censorship issue than other factors.

>From the point of the user, the ideal app store would contain exactly what the user wants, and not one thing more.

I don't really care if there are more apps on there that I might try and not use. I don't understand what I'm being sold here / why I would like that / how that even could happen.