Benevolent dictator and a scripting language to empower the future of smart contracts? Big woop. I have a shoe. So?
Bitcoin is somewhere between Monero and Ethereum. You need contracting, but too much creates complexity traps. Some folks are trying to make Bitcoin too complex and adding unneeded features. Those will be selected out in future forks. The safest route is minimal functionality for what is most needed. Monero doesn't have enough to be useful for Zooko's Triangle. Everything else will be cloned and branded and not a store of value.