Who is the Aether creator in this case? If that's the Aether-company, we are still at their mercy to change rules around mods etc. any time? so there's not muc

Who is the Aether creator in this case? If that's the Aether-company, we are still at their mercy to change rules around mods etc. any time? so there's not much value in the p2p except they save money on hosting and lure us in with the promise of p2p = independence?