Again, it doesn't matter what "the market" wants, Bitcoin is not governed by free-market but by rules enforced by a consensus of its peers so as to keep every network actors' incentives aligned.
How soon we forget the peer-to-peer network is useless and worthless if it doesn't serve a market...
It's tiered. 3 tiers.
(welcome to Bitcoin by the way, I understand you're new to the subject)
Tier 1 is the development team writing rules for the consensus algorithm. This happens in the first instance (i.e. Satoshi etc)
That's how Bitcoin has been since day one.
Until it changed. It's the same with all Open Source Projects. 'In the first instance', there is the team. Later, there are the teams (competition).