The author of the article should bother to read the first two lines of the official Ethereum page:

> Build unstoppable applications

> Ethereum is a decentralized platform that runs smart contracts: applications that run exactly as programmed without any possibility of downtime, censorship, fraud or third party interference.

One should add at the end: "...unless the developers are heavily invested in a contract, in which case they can perform an Ethereum hard fork to take back their investment in case it goes awry. You know, conflict of interest and all that."

Because that is exactly what happened here.