"Core is too centralized"
So we need to establish a "Bitcoin mint" to oversee the issue and lock down the Bitcoin codebase?
What the actual fuckery is this line of thinking?
Bitcoin core is a group of developers, they can do what they want to their code, we have the option of accepting or rejecting their action, the only reason they are the main implementation is because they have been doing a good job so far. If they started doing some tradeoff people don't agree with, people can just use other or create another implementation.
The fact that they can do what they want is important, as much as the fact that we can choose to use them or something else, compromising one or the other can only lead to total centralization.