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?
Ask yourself: Would it be any better if you had to trust a central authority instead of trusting a decentralized authority of miners? Surely not. Why should this issue (if it was) scale up (become bigger) with a growing network, when there's no change in rules? That makes no sense.
People who believe that central control is better are insane. A central authority can shut down everything at once. Believing in the benevolence of central authorities is sure to meet disappointment. The very reason Bitcoin was build is getting rid of central control. Otherwise you could just use Paypal and enjoy having your account frozen if you don't comply with their arbitrary policies.