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?
Well, bitcoin has reached and set a record, and this in itself is strong, bitcoin went down in history in many charts and comparisons, so do not think: Why did it slow down? Just everything has its limits.