I see the current situation as just "Bitcoin Core" trying to create a dictatorship over the coin and centralize it by whoever has access to a certain Github repo.  There's no way in hell you can call Bitcoin decentralized if you claim only four or so people are allowed to create changes to be put up for vote by miners.  They claim their ideology is decentralization, but their actions in the real world are the opposite of that.  Even if you assumed they're right and really are "benevolent" dictators and Gavin is an evil CIA spy, their ideology is inconsistent with how Bitcoin is supposed to actually function.  If they can't accept that fact, they probably need to go.