Thermos adapts to the needs of the community. How the community resonates with how he adapts, that's a different story.

The technician, developer class would destroy all communication into an esoteric Gentoo-realm that no common man could understand, as they would not budge in the face of user backlash: They would force all changes down everyone's throat, Linux style.

It is a miracle that The Guardian even covers Bitcoin in its current spiritual state. The press would ignore Bitcoin if the developers controlled the community due to the vocabulary likely being reduced to unintuitive mash in such a scenario.