What is the problem?

Remote nodes can be used over tor. And because BTC is a perfectly decentralized store of value some centralization within Monero as medium of exchange should be acceptable.

It's only problematic when maxi ideology ignores trade-offs (perfect auditability vs perfect privacy, perfect decentralization vs scalability).

Once you accept that Monero and Bitcoin are complimentary a lot of things become much more easy.

The future is bright.