How can a project ignore the investors?
It's actually quite easy. Seriously. You adopt the mentality of being an open source software project and not a get rich quick scheme and it pretty much follows from there. Attempts to influence from investors that lack technical merit (which is generally all of them) are treated with derision or laughed at.
I really can't believe that we are the only project to ever approach things in this manner, but given how hard it seems to be for people to get the concept, perhaps we are.
I claim you are deluding yourself. That happens. Step outside it objectively.