The frequent releases of the Bitcoin devs play a very small part especially when most users use custom GUIs or a web client to conduct Bitcoin business.
Right, sort of how companies like Cisco, Intel, Apple, Microsoft, and Google, and guys like Linus Torvalds, have little to do with people's ability to read their e-mail, and they owe 98% of the credit to the guys who invented the binary code and the transistor.
Why should we owe anyone anything? The debt has been paid inherently when they released their work. Why should they keep endless authority?
All I am calling for is no authority over the Bitcoin development culture. I am not questioning people doing things. However, I do question the "I am special, worship me, need me, depend on me." mentality.