So I obviously hope I never have to deal with the first of these two issues I have but what if Gaven Andresen dies off and doesn’t pass on the alert/control features that Satoshi bestowed to him, would community have to legit hard fork to even stay in the realm of ‘new development’ not sure how that works as I’m not a dev at all, hence my question. Not sure how the BIP’s are actually approved or implemented and ATM believing is all basically comes down to getting Gavin’s ultimate approvi. Which like I said I worry may at some point ultimately be a issue.

Bitcoin Project to rely on private alert systems and Bitcoin news sites

Instead, the Bitcoin Project will be relying on the alert systems implemented in private Bitcoin wallet services, but also on the promptitude of cryptocurrency news outlets.

According to the Bitcoin Project, they plan on retiring the native Bitcoin Alert system one to two months after the announcement made on November 1, 2016.
Major Bitcoin wallet services have already known about the Bitcoin Project's plan and and have removed support for the network-wide Alert system from their software.