Let me quote one of the "good guys", so the sheeps can digest
Bitcoin is a decentralized system.
If you don't like the work Mike does, don't use it! If you don't like the direction he's going with that work, write some code yourself that goes in a different direction. If you don't like where "core" Bitcoin client development is "going", go to
http://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin and hit the "Fork" button and convince other people to join your development effort.
You people seriously misunderstand how Bitcoin works...
I think its very relevant to the topic here. Notice the date of that quote,