I consider Mike Hearn, Gavin Andresen, jtoomim and the theZerg to better align with my believes and world view as developers compared to the Core developers you mention. I prefer their understanding of free market economics and Bitcoin governance specifically. In contrast I am strongly opposed to the governance model that Core is presently advocating, I consider it to be totalitarian in nature. The economic model that Core is operating under I also consider flawed, so much so that I would expect it to fail in the presence of real competition, this competition is also to be expected, especially if we end up with two concurrent chains.

Here is an example of a founding document for the governance of an alternative client implementation done right, Bitcoin Unlimited:

http://www.bitcoinunlimited.info/articlesOfFederation