Bitcoin does not need a rushed, let alone contentious, and dangerous hard fork, which is coded by an amateur such as Garzik, anytime soon. 
Here's what Bitcoin does not need (for the third time, no less, so I might try some extra emphasis).
Bitcoin doesn't want or need your pampered, mollycoddled, nanny-state, protectionist foolishness. Bitcoin survives in the wild and grows stronger and more robust through adaptation and freedom of choice, selecting the best code available from the open market at any given time. Bitcoin does not need you to defend it from would-be attackers. It can do that all by itself and, whether you personally approve of the code being used or not, Bitcoin will come out stronger at the end of it
You can have your plush toy badger with all the health and safety warnings and no sharp edges. I'll have the rabid honey badger that rips your damn face off if the inclination strikes. Cry harder about your boogeymen, Bitcoin doesn't care.
Why should this "power" include telling other people what software they can or can't run? If users could do that (and I'm glad they can't) THEN the system has failed. Users will always have the freedom to decide which chain they wish to transact on. Why isn't that enough for you? Why do you want to dictate terms to people who don't owe you a damn thing?
The same reason for which the corporate baboons, i.e. attackers attempt to hijack the name Bitcoin for their own terms. Users with actual knowledge about the system, should educate and spread the use of Bitcoin clients not "cancer altcoin disguised as Bitcoin" clients. Waaaagh! Hijackers! Waaaagh! Hostile Takeovers! Waaaagh! Sacking Developers!
Could any of you protectionist fascists sound any more juvenile? How many more times? There can be no takeover unless you give these corporations your private keys or your preferred dev team give them control of the repo. Assuming you and the devs aren't dumb enough to do that, you can't have any decisions made for you. You are in total control of your respective funds and/or repositories. But you don't have total control over what any of the other network participants do, so quit trying.
Your use of the word "listening" here distinctly implies not just "hearing" what the community and developers are saying, but also "obeying". Hence slave. They listened. They just didn't agree.
The latter is a lie and you are being fed kool-aid. Pretty much anyone who understands Segwit, which does not include Ver, Jihan, Wright, Oliver, Thomas, etc., embraces Segwit. Jihan has been paying for anti-Segwit propaganda in China a few months ago. Wake up.Yes, they didn't listen and they're just including SegWit for shits and giggles. If they weren't listening, they wouldn't have included SegWit at all. What are you even on about?
And even if you could prevent their involvement, you'd have to sacrifice one of Bitcoin's primary tenets of permisionlessness in order to do so. It's far simpler just to let them get on with whatever the hell they want to do. You can still run whatever code you want. Beyond that, you're as impotent as everyone else.
False. You can fork away the current miners.Again with the what? The miners are forking away. Doesn't mean they're gone for good. The only way you're getting rid of them permanently is with the nuclear option of an algo change. You're perfectly free to pursue that avenue if you want.
Until 5 minutes pass and they find another boogeyman to plead for someone in authority to "save" us from.
It was fine until we got Anderesen'd, Hearnia'd. Now only two people are left in the way of a peaceful Bitcoin.This forum isn't capable of a peaceful Bitcoin.
It's a 24/7/365 witch-hunt with the assclowns on this site. They can't help themselves.
I'm not here saying any "side" has any kind of moral high ground. Both have done stupid, petty crap.
No. Bitcoin Core, as a group of independent individuals has done nothing wrong. Yet Garzik, Ver, Jihan keep attacking them and condoning attacks on them.And I commend the devs on maintaining a mostly neutral stance despite the slanging match encompassing them. This is purely about the 24/7/365 witch-hunt assclowns vs the so-called BigBlockers idiocy. It's all just posturing at the end of the day. Only the numbers matter. And again, Bitcoin will be fine.