I’m tired of this argument that “this is not decentralized”. It is meaningfully decentralized in multiple ways:

* there is no legal entity representing the Ethereum blockchain because it is decentralized

* the correct chain is not dictated by a single person or group of people

What you are seeing is an implicit form of democracy or people acting in shared interests and in support of Ethereum’s original developer and “leader”. The moment vitalik loses it and the organization loses credibility, alternate plans will be made according to the common interests of the people who have a stake in the system. Perhaps there will be a fork, but in the end the greatest demand will be for the most universally accepted version and the other will whither into insignificance ala Ethereum classic.