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.
We need competent developers who have the specialized skills to maintain Bitcoin. People who can decide what ideas are good, and what should be rejected, because there are a lot of stupid ideas made, and only a few good ones.
Do you believe that all the stupid ideas made by incompetent people should be merged because there was a small group in the community who wanted it?
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.
I believe anyone can make a pull request from Core's repository?