Yes, and that's what gives me hope - because the shift will come about in a more organic way that is more likely to be embraced. However, I have a friend who is an "agility coach" and he says in every company that hires his team, a bunch of people end of quitting because they better understand how not just fucked up, but how sticky the problems with an entrenched dominance hierarchy are. People don't like to give up what they perceive to be power and control — even if it’s economically more viable.

Peter Block notes that one well known pet food company had great success of every sort with a truly partnership-oriented plant 20 years ago, but it never spread to any of their other ones in their company because they couldn't get enough people to let go of power over others - despite the organizational and economic advantages.

"Our search for great bosses comes not from a desire to be watched and directed but rather from our belief that clear authority relationships are the antidote to crisis and ultimately the answer to chaos. Empowerment embodies the belief that the answer to the latest crisis lies within each of us."

Block, Peter. Stewardship

Patriarchy spread in the ancient world because it was so disruptive, so I think that speaks to just how hard it will be to shift more towards partnership oriented systems, but as you say, time will tell.

In other words, inequality did not spread from group to group because it is an inherently better system for survival, but because it creates demographic instability, which drives migration and conflict and leads to the cultural — or physical — extinction of egalitarian societies. Source

So, what exactly is it that leads you to feel so challenged by the things that I write? Because from what I know of you, it seems like you would embrace a lot of what egalitarianism was and stood/stands for.

In each of these societies, the dominant cultural ethos was one that emphasized individual autonomy, non-directive childrearing methods, nonviolence, sharing, cooperation, and consensual decision-making. Their core value, which underlay all of the rest, was that of the equality of individuals.

‘Egalitarian’ and ‘Patriarchal’ May Not Mean What You Think They Do

We call this an egalitarian society, not because men and women have equal rights and power (they don’t always in modern H/G tribes), but because of the socio/political structure which does not favor a chief or other full time or hereditary leader.

Ad hoc leaders emerge for certain tasks and decisions are made by the group for the good of the group. The absence of social classes, significant wealth disparity, ruling classes, and no hierarchy of traditional power that is maintained by intimidation — these are the things that make for an egalitarian culture.