It seems to me that what we're observing here is central planers trying to defend their monopoly.
And need I to remind you that the very reason for Bitcoin to exist, being such a phenomenal success, is breaking a monopoly of central planners?

I'm not even trying to convince anyone that this monopoly is a bad thing, simply because I think that it isn't going to matter. If Bitcoin is here to stay, it is just a matter of time before the market players build alternative implementations, customized for their own needs. And the fact that central planners have been stating for quite long that they "don't care about miners" is most likely only going to accelerate the process.

I know for a fact that making a new implementation is not as hard as the legends say. With a proper team it can be done for a reasonable amount of money and the money invested is meant to pay back later.

Let's be honest, the current bitcoin core software/implementation is a direct inheritance of the prototype made by Satoshi. Some components were upgraded or replaced, but the general architecture has not changed since its inception. It's hardly the best architecture for any possible application, maybe even not the best architecture for any specific app.

So if Bitcoin is here to stay, new implementations coming into existence are inevitable. Not only because there are better ways to do what bitcoin core does, but also because there is (will be) too much money at sake and the stakeholders will not be willing to risk their money by relying on only one software implementation and the responsiveness of one team of people who don't even work for them.

And no matter how much you'd want to, you can't stop anyone from running a compatible yet alternative implementation of a bitcoin node.