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Everyone in the community respects Vitalik so that certainly adds a sense of social value to the platform, but you do realize that once Ethereum, EOS, DApps, are created it is up to the community how they will evolve. They are simply built and released to the world, at this point Vitalik has about as much control as any of us. But as my first sentence iterates, there is certainly some social acceptance value that he adds being so respected.