This is why I never think of BTC as decentralized. In the end, the maintainers have a ton of unchecked power. Neither is Ethereum.
Cue the apologists who will say that you can fork the code anytime you don't like what they are doing. But what you can't fork is the name Bitcoin and especially the ticker BTC, which is what really matters. Anything that you fork that is not called Bitcoin will be called garbage, or a scam, etc.