Do you think that Bitcoin has become too slow to compete with the relatively quick alt coins out there? Is it realty competitive to have a slow community rather than a centralised decision making in development?
In other words, does the community effect of decentralisation enough to counterbalance the difficult decision making processes?
First of all, I think you were mislead by the definition of centralization and decentralization. Bitcoin per se was initiated to uphold the commitment of applying decentralized blockchain to secure every users anonymity. It is hard to integrate the government's goal as for bitcoin to develop and move forward.