The technical experts you derive your arguments from have always thought that the network needed paternal stewardship.
If it was true, it would probably mean guaranteed failure at some point in the future. Thankfully it isn't, and our consensus mechanism is built in, as described up thread.
Yikes, I haven't heard this argument before. So when should Classic devs walk away from maintaining their repository?
Code can be maintained. But we should avoid interference in the network. Dont conflate the two.