The point of Ethereum to me is that I can write a service, fund it, and then have it run in perpetuity without any intervention from me. How is that vanished?

The point of Ethereum to me is that I can write a service, fund it, and then have it run in perpetuity without any intervention from me. How is that vanished? There is some small probability that the Ethereum community might from consensus around interfering with my service. But I'm no more worried about that than I am about Heroku or anyone else deciding I'm not allowed on the platform. If anything this episode has shown just how high that bar is on Ethereum as compared to centralized offerings. People act like just because there is one tiny corner case where the full letter of the promise is unfulfilled that means the entire offering is void. But what offering doesn't have at least a few caveats?