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This could get really ugly.

(Not only per se, but, also, as it really shows how "centralized" these suposedly decentralized systems are ...

... and -this- could have consequences.)

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ETH, and any cryptocurrency for that matter, has never been “decentralized” in terms of development. There are always a few guys making all major decisions, and it’s hard to oppose them other than making a forked currency.

This is not true. I am one of the maintainers of https://github.com/prysmaticlabs/prysm, one of the main client implementations of eth2 today. My team is unaffiliated with the Ethereum Foundation. There are also 3 other client implementations of the protocol that are very robust and done by independent teams in different parts of the world. We also can't force users to accept all our changes, and development on ETH's infrastructure has indeed been trending towards more decentralization. There are few blockchains out there today with more than 1, production-quality client implementation.

How many people get to vote on EIPs, out of curiosity?

They are decentralized. This move is more of a risk mitigation strategy than risk of a 51% attack. There's also certain risks from miners at the transition block because they know the exact block it will happen at.

it's centralized in both directions. Small development team and small group of powerful miners.

What are you talking about, it has the most developers of any project.

Pareto Distribution. Most of the developers did very little.

https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/graphs/contributors

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