Bitcoin has momentum that is very scarce. If destroyed, cryptocurrency might be doomed for another few decades.
The fact is Bitcoin would live on without his support. If a feature is truly needed, it will be done anyway by another party or two.
Which is it? How many fingers can you chop off your hand before it ceases to be a hand?
The momentum I am referring to is the userbase that continues to grow which is not fully due to the post-2010 work of Bitcoin-Qt/Bitcoind.
I think it would be very hard to argue that it was because of the efforts of Mr. "Bitcoin is just a experiment, don't bet the house." that Bitcoin is trading over $12 a coin.
Satoshi Nakamoto made 98% of what the core Bitcoin protocol is today. That was the Big Bang. Every other software development is a secondary footnote. The real success is in user support of Satoshi's core product.
I recognize people want to be important, they want people to depend on them for Bitcoin to work but that's not how free societies work. We don't indebt ourselves to a supposed leader. We shouldn't have to owe Bitcoin's success to a certain class of people. We all stand on equal ground and stand independently. Bitcoin as a decentralized currency should represent that.