is Vitalik an order of magnitude smarter than Satoshi?
no, but his balls are an order of magnitude bigger
when you are thinking about dropping a million dollars of your hard earned cash into a crypto community, knowing that the lead developer has the huevos to show himself in public and stand behind his creation instead of hiding like a coward or criminal offers the potential investor a certain level of clarity that is devilishly absent from the bitcoin community.
And
why do you ask, do investors love this "clarity" concept that the bitcoin community cannot seem to grasp?
Why does Wall St demand quarterly reports from
every company CEO?
Well, in the words of the worlds richest coward, "if you don't understand by now, then ur obviously too stoopid"
You will not receive a dime of Wall Street money without a company CEO.
but for those admittedly too stupid who still ask why, here's the only answer:
TRUST
Satoshi left because he knew he was in danger if he was a public persona, he had nothing to gain. It would damage Bitcoin as a project with "a CEO".
Also, the point of Bitcoin is that we don't need "Wall Street CEO's" permission to grow. If they don't want to get involved, others will, and at some point they will be forced to join or sink.