The big bump in the road is yet to come when enforcement is switched on. Hold on tight.
Why? Enforcement can be switched on and off as many times as necessary each time fixing bugs until it is right. All the while, the payments are not stopped and exchanges/pools do not need to panic update their daemons. I see no reason to "hold on tight".
I'm not keen on one person having so much control over the network. I do hope he will relinquish this control in a future update when everything is back on track.
I figured this would come up, but this is non-issue. The masternode payment code is open source (as it is not directly related to Darksend). Thus anybody can look at the code to confirm what Evan has told us -- and that is that he only has a switch. A simple on or off. The "on" version is what was released on the 20th (plus the fix for the "race situation"). Most everybody downloaded that and was ready for the hard fork. The majority did not dissent. The "off" version is running now and people are currently actively updating. The only ones "defending" the miners are trolls. (Silly ones at that since the smart miners will ignore them and realize that the rise in price due to the mastenodes will far outweigh the 20% payments assuming that the price had stayed at this level until Darksend was fully released).
Anyway, the only control Evan has is being able to switch between two binary states both of which the majority has agreed with. Furthermore, the code is on github. His "control" is non-existent and this a non-issue.
BTW, I am not really ranting at you as much as I want to crush this line of reasoning before it spreads.
