I don't understand how some people got so tricked by the likes of e.g. Hearn and Gavin, and greedy individuals such as the self proclaimed "Bitcoin Jesus" (the better wording is 'fool') Ver. Please provide us with examples of how Blockstream has taken over control of Bitcoin and how it's damaging the ecosystem.
I can't believe they took over complete control of Bitcoin and now everyone is walking away.
Who's walking away? The wannabe Bitcoin dictator Hearn? The (now obsolete) CIA visitor Gavin? The "follow and pump the altcoins jesus" Ver? Blockstream is a private company working on an open source protocol, anyone can work and compete against them. Blockchain.info is doing this.
The company was funded by the very same developers that worked on Bitcoin prior. Obviously, if there's a list of features that need to be integrated they may give higher priority to those that may benefit the company. However, there's nothing wrong with that (it's not like they're implementing things without consensus). These 'groups' need to stop with their social media campaigns and start providing good code. The 'group' with a better set of developers and superior code is always going to end up as the primary implementation of Bitcoin (currently Bitcoin Core).