The Bitcoin Dev Team could certainly write code that gave them 100 million coins, but it will be difficult to convince the miners, exchanges, payment processors

The Bitcoin Dev Team could certainly write code that gave them 100 million coins, but it will be difficult to convince the miners, exchanges, payment processors, wallet developers and the rest of the community to run it. And this is exactly what happened early in Monero's history, where the lead developer got ejected from the community: https://monero.stackexchange.com/questions/1011/monero-inception-how-did-bitmonero-become-monero https://monero.stackexchange.com/questions/1011/monero-incep... And this is also what's happening now in Bitcoin Cash, where the developers of ABC (up until now the client almost everyone used) wants to assign themselves 8% of the rewards from a mined block. And the the rest of the community are rejecting it heavily. So yes, the community would fork it.