I think what VeritasSapere is getting at is that Bitcoin's greatest point of centralization is presently Development:




Solex made in interesting observation here:  Node count has actually increased with the release of Bitcoin-XT.  If we had even more competing clients to choose from, perhaps we would see a further increase in node count as people ran nodes to express the vote for the direction the protocol should take.  In my opinion this would be a very big positive because it could simultaneously increase node count AND decrease development centralization around Core.