Almost seeing the light, cypher. Something people have been warning about for 10 years comes to your attention only now. Which doesn't really speak for your adversarial thinking skills.
Monero is far from being perfect, but it has better conditions. Anonymous devs, that with 100% certainty include agents.
But that's the thing. You can not have a project without them. You need to involve them in the project, while keeping the process itself as transparent as possible. That's how we can self-regulate. Let them work for us. Align with higher principals so you can call out bad decisions on its own merits.