I'm nothing like a network engineer. But is the centralization described in this article a good thing for the Internet as a whole?

I can see that within an organization's internal network, they can assess the importance of different communications, and route accordingly. So on the internal side, it's potentially a big win.

But across the globe, who can assign the priority of traffic accurately and impartially? And isn't the decentralized nature of the current architecture an important feature, because of the way it can route around problems (be they technical or regulatory) of its own accord, without requiring a higher authority to tell it how (and thus without being susceptible to the agenda of that authority)?