Satoshi disappeared from the community in 2011 and the lack of a leader is hurting Bitcoin currently. Protocol improvements like Segwit are not getting approved by miners and there is a power struggle going on between various factions that appears to be tearing apart Bitcoin. The best path forward is cooler heads prevailing and the two sides coming together and agreeing on a roadmap that allows innovation on top of Bitcoin (though that is not the only path forward and a hard fork is another viable route). I shared some thoughts on how that could happen in The Bitcoin Compromise