Then you sent me a PM asking if it would be ok to move this thread to Service Discussion. WTF? If discussion of the Foundation isn't a good topic for the main Discussion forum what is?
To be honest, you yourself should have posted it in the service discussion section and not in the main discussion forum. Because you're trying to provide a service, right? Just the act of putting it in the main forum touches on what most "opponents" of this foundation feel is the main problem with it: it seems to go against what they thought bitcoin stood for. Apparently you think that THE bitcoin foundation is so much more important than other services it deserves to be in the main discussion forum.
You say "why change, Bitcoin has been working great for me!"
It hasn't been working great for me; I'm frustrated by the lack of resources and all of the distractions I have to deal with as the unelected, un-asked-for de-facto leader of this amazing experiment. I'm excited about the Foundation, because it is bringing together dedicated, effective people who all want Bitcoin to succeed.
*YOU* feel you are the "unelected, un-asked-for de-facto leader of this amazing experiment". No one made you that, and frankly speaking I don't think the majority of the bitcoin users feel that you are. And even IF they do, I'd say that in itself is a bad sign and should make you shy away from trying to step up even more.
This is how this all makes me feel: It feels like an someone who feels like an unelected, un-asked-for de-facto leader of this amazing experiment would rather become the elected (or in this case, self-appointed) asked-for principal leader of this amazing experiment.
I am really sorry that what is happening with bitcoin doesn't make you feel well at the moment, but just the fact that you put a lot of voluntary work into bitcoin doesn't grant you any rights. That is why it's called voluntary. If you feel it's taking too much out of you, nothing prevents you from changing what you do for/with bitcoin. That's the great part about voluntary efforts. No rights, but also no obligations.
You did choose to change something it seems, but the way in which you want things to change for YOU is a way that a lot of people disagree with. As much as it is your right to change stuff you, it's the right of those people to stand up against how these changes (might) affect them.