"Consensus often takes a lot of time to build" - how true! Even truer in naturally "egalitarian" communities with no legitimate leader. In a classical system, say the Facebook developer APIs, the community of FB developers, even if their input would be listened to, would logically follow whatever FB decides. In a blockchain environment the witnesses have less inclination to follow STINC and even less to follow any one of them. If they were to disagree, why would, say @jesta's opinion be better than @gtg's ?

That is something unprecedented and very interesting to watch - it makes blockchain eco-systems both more stable and slower to evolve. However my concern is that, in a space that moves at high speed, shouldn't we prefer more flexibility and faster adaptation speed to stability?

And wouldn't that imply that strong (and good) leadership would be a benefit? At any rate, governance remains a major challenge