The dictator can be benevolent and enforce any other form of governance model he wants. Indeed this is what happened with Ned, who basically stayed neutral down the road, and allowed the cartels to develop.
If you read my old blogs (like this one), you can see I've been arguing for more control since a long, long time.
This is absolutly ok. But that means that we both have a big gap between our political opinions.
Nevertheless I would say: lets stop blaming each other. That would be a favour for both parties and would not be that exausting 😏
You know thats the cool thing about our days platform technologies: we can have our seperate communities.
Thats why forks are important in an open source and free world