Oh, i understand Bitcoin very well. Bitcoin relies on a consensus-mechanism called "Proof of Work" and as such it's the miners that effectively decide what happens. You don't like it? OK, but what other consensus-mechanism do you propose? "Proof of Node"? "Proof of Reddit Account"?

You see you are right that Bitcoin means NO backdoor decisions, yes. But then you should also understand that in the Bitcoin ecosystem it's PoW that decides and nothing else.