You keep saying this. It's not true.

(I work for Blockstream, and we have no current employees in the top 10 contributors for this release AFAICT)

If Blockstream wants to change the protocol in a way that Coinbase, Binance, Trezor, Electrum, Metamask, the miners, El Salvador, Grayscale and Microstrategy don't like, they will probably have a hard time pushing it through.

Everyone can run whatever version of bitcoin they like. You don't need to upgrade if you don't agree with the changes.