The point I was trying to make is that the golang community has a lot of respect for the current core team. If the community didn't have that respect, then I s

The point I was trying to make is that the golang community has a lot of respect for the current core team. If the community didn't have that respect, then I speculate that there would be a fork (or takeover), and it would then look more like the kind of community-controlled project that you seem to prefer. This kind of thing has happened in the past: XFree86, OpenOffice, gcc, etc.