I believe franky1 will love this topic, and will have a lot to say. Especially because of his perceived "incompetence" of the Core developers in maintaining the development of a secure, censorship-resistant cryptocurrency.
Who would be your candidates as lead developers of Bitcoin 2.0?
if you at least once got out of the mindset of needing 'candidates as lead developers' you would then see what decentralisation really means.
where anyone could then propose new features. and without mandated activation dates or coercion. devs actually think about the bitcoin communities needs and make code and release code that would get activated when the community see the true benefits of letting it activate.