None of the Cryptocurrencies are truly decentralized, at best, they are distributed. They all have devs with access to the repos and devs who can deploy changes

None of the Cryptocurrencies are truly decentralized, at best, they are distributed. They all have devs with access to the repos and devs who can deploy changes. Especially Ethereum is firmly in the hands of Buterin and company. Both depend on each other. Without miners, no currency, without code no mining, without very high algo difficulty, no safety.