This isn't a democracy - it's a market. People who don't agree with him will vote with their money.
Within a week we've had an announcement, a debate, a decision and now a plan. Give me that a million times over a community controlled mess where we're still here at christmas arguing over a logo colour.
Despite that, community probably has more influence over ED's decisions than most. The brand review agenda came from community discussion and so did the name.
When you sell people Darkcoins and then suddenly rebrand them with no consensus or warning, that is the 'bait-and-switch' form of fraud.
Successful coins' devs don't violate their social contract with unilateral decisions.
You got the order wrong in your last sentence. The order was decision, plan, announce, debate. Not the way you have it.
Making it look like an inclusive process after the fact is especially obnoxious.

Not like you own any Dash so why are you here? Its like if my neighbour buys a red car, reads statistics and sees that red cars are stoped more frequently by cops and decides to pain it blue! And then I get soooo pissed on him for doing it!