i think Vitalik has made movements to try and distance himself from Ethereum in some ways and by moving onto new projects so has @dan.
This should be the way so that decentralised projects rely on their development community to run them. However, this is an interesting area and we will see how this unfolds.
Perhaps always there needs to be major players who have a strong voice in how these systems are operating for the good of all.
Bitcoin is a much more focused project than one with dapps etc? I'm not a programmer tho.