No, you have the wrong philosophy. Everything needs development and improvement. Without improving medicine, the average lifespan would not be in the 70s and 80s; we would not have eradicated diseases like smallpox; diseases that we don't consider life threatening would kill you. In industry, improvements increase output, efficiency, quality among others. Without improvements to our technology, you wouldn't even be here on the internet discussing on an internet forum about a new technology called Bitcoin. If everything simply stopped at the first iteration like you are suggesting, then we would still be using rocks and living in caves. Improvements and development of things are required to advance anything.
Yea like the 10000s of cancer cures? Howe about prevention instead of those scam medicines. How about dont drink fluorided water and breath chemtrailed air.
It is resilient. Bitcoin right now can survive a lot of things, including forks. But there can be improvements made. If development were to stop, bitcoin would still work, but it would not be its best.
How exactly is it a command and control vehicle for manipulation in the future?
The code is resilient, the humans arent.
It's easier to manipulate bitcoin users towards a dark agenda, than to mess with the code.
Again, open source. If we don't like what the developers do, then we just fork and use a client created by other developers. Even if one country regulates Bitcoin, that doesn't mean that all countries will. Developers in other countries can simply step in and replace those that were removed due to regulation.
And who is we? Most bitcoin users dont really care or are ignorant about this. It is becoming centralized either way, if it's not decentralized by design, with no "updates"