Eth fits my set of suspicious known modus operandi more than bitcoin, although you can never rule that one out either. But fact of the matter is that over 75% of ether is in the hands of mysterious "founders". One of which in the form of Roger Ver, is now responsible for a shockingly effective attack on bitcoin, doing exactly what he is accusing "the others" of (putting all the power of bitcoin in the hands of a single ceo, closed source development with censorship and now the latest private mining to attack all other options to force people to follow you, and completely ignoring all the actually valid arguments against BU).
Meanwhile all the usual suspects of team monopoly, powergrab, vendor lockin and haters of all forms of freedom are proveably involved in ethereum. Disgustingly instead of being worried, the masses with their appreciating breadcrumbs are singing the praise and loving it and don't even want to hear about any concerns. Saying bullshit like decentralisation is now a "governance problem", and nonsense like ethereum is more decentralized or has better scaling or less blockchain bloat, all of which are false at the moment (blockchain already larger than bitcoin and bancor ico now confirmed eth max tps at 7 or less). Also they don't seem to care who is in control as long as they make money. The old "bread and games" trick to keep the plebians in check, still works like a charm.
We are at an important junction and I'm following developments with interest, but I do fear we might get pulled in the same centralized corrupt shit all over again.