Marty's Ƀent Issue #457: People don't like not having control A formal governance structure introduces more social attack surface that creates the potential for motivated individuals or groups to exploit the process to their benefit.
Marty's Ƀent Issue #320: A Sunday tale for your Tuesday morning What we learned towards the end of last Summer is exactly what Matthew is describing in his thread, node operators ultimately decide what Bitcoin is and miners are contracted out to secure the network and collect block rewards and transaction fees for their service.
Marty's Ƀent Issue #109: Setting the record straight Back to my original point, if you see someone attempting to equate the #No2X movement with Core, #note who said it. This person doesn't get how Bitcoin works.