How anxious are you to be the sole person to get blamed for breaking a $10+ billion dollar industry?  Probably wants to outsource some responsibility to other people first so it's at least a team effort if they manage to screw it up.  They're at a stage where they have to make permanent choices that will decide the entire future of the currency and if it fails or succeeds.  Things like the whole 7 vs 80-100TPS deal, and huge block chains with high centralization and high transactions vs lower centralization and crap volume.  The guy doesn't seem like a rock star, anarchist programmer, with the idea of "fuck the entire world, I'm doing it my way".

There has to be at least 3-4 more high profile people from several other different countries like China, Germany, Japan, Finland, etc, involved and taking responsibility before anything big happens.

What do you think this article actually means?  It doesn't mean what Coindesk wrote, it means he's scared to be responsible for something that might decide the fate of the entire planet lol.

http://www.coindesk.com/gavin-andresen-bitcoin-companies-support-open-source/