Before: Gavin or who ever is lead dev had to personally defend his and his team's actions while the whole community was carefully monitoring what he did AND he was easily removable from his lead position
This is getting interesting. How would you go about to remove Gavin from his lead position in the old model? You claim it was easy. To me it seems easier now when I am a member of the foundation employing him. I wonder how you would go about to revoke his Satioshi powers in the old model.
I don't think the community will stop watching. A large part of the community has joined the foundation, and will watch it as well.