Who cares? It's open source and permissionless. You can opt out.
If you don't like an update you can swap your Monero for a different crypto or you can fork the code. Not even the scary devs can stop you.
Meanwhile in BTC everyone is just as beholden to Bitcoin Core and Blockstream and two KYC mining pools control over 51% of hashpower...even BCH is more decentralized in node software.
https://luke.dashjr.org/programs/bitcoin/files/charts/software.html