What bothers you about the ethos of bitcoin changing over time for starters? And what unintended consequences are we heading for?
I’m confused by your question ask me again and here is some information from Marty Bent if you don’t believe me https://www.tftc.io/bitcoin-mining-pool-centralization/
Discussion
Well, we believe that Bitcoin is freedom and it’s money that can’t be taken from us except we’re putting Control into the hands of governments potentially
Those beliefs are true. Remember though, if you still agree as you did a moment ago, control is an illusion. So the government having an illusion in their hands is probably ok.