So that developers cannot change the rule set and power is eliminated at base protocol level. Thats gone with lightning, theyve merely tried to eliminate the purpose of mining and give power to a development team
Developers cannot force code on economic nodes whether regular full nodes or miners.
You are also going off topic with a conspiracy theory instead of acknowledging that Bcash supporters have changed their narrative
Its very difficult for me to understand why blockstream should capitalize on the bitcoin network as a whole, how 8 people control the fate of development when a system is available for miners to compete on an equal playing field.
There are many implementations and many companies and users which benefit from Bitcoin, not just that insignificant(In relation to the size of the whole ecosystem) company