What is wrong with the goal of decentralizing development across multiple competing implementations?
Nothing, but that is absolutely not what is happening. I know this is your new talking point Peter but it doesn't reflect on the situation at hand:
A totalitarian power grab for the governance of Bitcoin. Not the proposition of a new implementation but an attempt a hijacking the consensus code behind political motives
It IS a proposition. No one is being forced into it. Are you?
Of course not. But in typical dictator fashion they have managed to use their authority, PR & industry relations to instill false expectations into more simple users and steer the masses to get behind them against a "common enemy" on the premise of "inclusion" and general abuse of the sever misunderstanding of your typical redditor.
They absolutely have a right to release different code but it should stand on its own and not require a complete propaganda campaign.
A dictator does not rule through a 75% consensus, and because we have the ability to fork away from any developers now and into the future, we do not ever need to worry about there being a dictator of Bitcoin, this is literally impossible. It should not matter what kind of people the developers are, it does not even matter what their motivations are. All that matters is what is in the open source code and we will never be forced to use a client that we do not want to. So to compare the developers of Bitcoin XT to a dictator is actually very inaccurate, and is really just bad rhetoric and hyperbole.
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1164464.msg12267335#msg12267335