Because people want to dream this is some anarchist system where nobody controls etherium the same way everyone thinks bitcoin-core isn't a centralized authority on the protocol.
To dispute that de-facto centralization requires miners to collectively decide to abstain from updates to these primary clients en masse. That just won't happen, people don't organize or coordinate like that. The status quo has tremendous inertia beyond what can be reasonably expected of independent actors trying to act in their own self interest.
> To dispute that de-facto centralization requires miners to collectively decide to abstain from updates to these primary clients en masse. That just won't happen, people don't organize or coordinate like that. The status quo has tremendous inertia beyond what can be reasonably expected of independent actors trying to act in their own self interest.
To dispute that de-facto centralization requires miners to collectively decide to abstain from updates to these primary clients en masse. That just won't happen, people don't organize or coordinate like that. The status quo has tremendous inertia beyond what can be reasonably expected of independent actors trying to act in their own self interest.