I've seen many people lately criticising bitcoin's lack of authority as a possible weakness. From what it seems, users have to put (at least some) trust to miners and pools and rely on them for things like generating blocks with updated clients, including transactions etc. Wouldn't such an issue scale up as bitcoin grows? Could it be addressed somehow?
On the assumption that this is an earnest inquiry and not just concern-trolling...
Where is the "weakness" in a lack of authority?
According to the designer it is intended as the lack of a weakness.
http://satoshi.nakamotoinstitute.org/emails/cryptography/4/Definitely not a troll and sorry if it seemed so. It's a genuine question. I didn't want to bring this to a political level though, I'm not implying something like decentralisation could be exploited by the government to take bitcoin down. What in my opinion is great about bitcoin is great that you don't have to trust a bank, government ot institution etc. But what about miners? You see the effect SPV has to bitcoin right now.