First of all thank you for bringing civil debate points. This may be the first encounter I've had where someone didn't immediately call me a shill.

The reason I say compromised is simply because of the direction that network is headed. I think the original design by Satoshi is still alive in both BCH and BSV and I wish that BCH had won the hash war. But I think the reason it went the way it did was because keeping the blocks small created a fee market and the miners end up making more money (in USD terms) in the short run that way even though it limits the growth of the network.

All I can see coming from the BTC camp is layer 2 BS which is only necessary because of the moratorium on increasing the block size. It's never going to scale as intended and that's pretty much guaranteed because of what they've done.

To your point of being an open system, yes, you're right, and I don't mean to imply that the cabal has absolute control of BTC, but they do have it on a short leash. It's possible that BTC will end up taking the dollar's place as a global reserve currency, and I don't think that would be a bad thing, necessarily. But it would not be the real thing, either.

It would be a system set up for normies to use to pay their taxes and do the same things everyone does using credit/fiat, with third party service providers who do all the heavy lifting including securing their users' private keys. If that's how it ends up, then so be it, but I don't think that's what bitcoin was meant to be.