But my coin will save us all!
Or "their" coin. Let's see what happens.
You are not up against one person. There is an army of developers that see the light (maybe not the NWO interpretation but the distributed != decentralized one at least).
Did Gavinmike think they could just fork the chain without forking the developers too? Duh.
The beauty of pegged side chains is we are not all working alone, even if we are.