Yes, but Bitcoin really is just an experiment. If something in it is fundamentally not going to work, (including the consensus development concept), then isn't it best to blow up and fail now when there's only $4 billion at stake, instead coddling it until it stagnates and dies, or until there are trillions of dollars at risk?
"...bitcoin is an experiment. It's getting to be a scarier and scarier experiment as it gets larger and larger, because if it fails there will be a lot of people who will lose the money they've invested..." Gavin Andresen, Bitcoin Developer, 2014 - http://www.econtalk.org/archives/2014/05/gavin_andresen.html
"...bitcoin is an experiment. It's getting to be a scarier and scarier experiment as it gets larger and larger, because if it fails there will be a lot of people who will lose the money they've invested..." Gavin Andresen, Bitcoin Developer, 2014 - http://www.econtalk.org/archives/2014/05/gavin_andresen.html