The community has long moved past Vitalik as a central point of failure. He's as central to Ethereum as Bill Gates is to Microsoft. Ethereum has 9 different cli

The community has long moved past Vitalik as a central point of failure. He's as central to Ethereum as Bill Gates is to Microsoft. Ethereum has 9 different clients made by different distributed teams that adhere to the same spec. That spec is drafted online in the open and discussed in weekly calls. The Ethereum Foundation is similar to the W3C in that they help co-ordinate the development of it.