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 You know just because you don't understand my reply it doesn't mean I don't understand the issue.

Bitcoin is a living breathing social construct. Its upgrades are decided by users in consensus. You rip that away, kill it off, when you replace it with a system, which you expressly advertise as being a solution to upgrade debates, that asks miners for permission to upgrade at every step (its gets worse when miners ignore a side chain because they decide its no longer worth their time) 

So this is the zombie part. Its still working, but in a mindless way. Its gotten rid of social consensus.