This is how consensus works -- it's messy, painful and takes time, but it's the best damn thing we have. A democracy for bitcoin is the death of bitcoin -- it will simply be co-opted as all governments have been.
Bitcoin is a form of democracy where the economic majority decides, whether you like it or not this has always been the case.
Yes, and this times (when blockstream represents a dev majority) it is rather feudalism. It is as if LINUX would be developed by a majority of IBM delegates.