I have been involved in the crypto scene since 2011. What little I code are scripts to run some light mining with gpus. I have been the victim of some scams over the years but nothing I wasn't willing to lose. I have some IT experience both Unix support and Windows. Overall I would say that I am crypto agnostic and believe in people supporting whatever crypto they like. I hold ETH, BTC, ETC and formerly Dao tokens. Enough about me onto the myths.
1.) Immutability.
There has been an ongoing discussion between ETH and ETC about immutability. I support both cryptos but lets face it neither is immutable. With either crypto a 51% or greater of the miners could do things far worse than what happened with the dao hard fork. The ETC community is clearly embracing "immutability" and it is a worthwhile goal but a false one. I believe what should be stated is they value mutability approaching zero but will never reach it. Why? Two categories of reasons. First, the issues of attacks on a relatively under secured network. While that is changing and hash power is rising, an attack is certainly a possibility much greater than with ETH or BTC. Secondly, there will never be perfect consensus in changing ETC in the future. We have learned this from BTC. You will never make 100% of people happy and when the time comes to upgrade the software with another hard fork there will always be dissent. BTC is the least mutable crypto out there with respect to both categories combined. IMO ETH is currently less mutable than ETC and that may change over time. The goal of immutability is however more embraced by the ETC community than the ETH community.
2.) Vitalik can be coerced by the govt. and the govt will go right to him and the rest of the developers when they want to engage in their nefarious statist activities.
Vitalik and the devs could certainly be approached by a government and be coerced into submitting malicious code that would harm the community. This as unlikely as it may be isn't realistically going to happen. Why? Vitalik doesn't decide what code runs on the network, the nodes and miners decide what forks happen and will be decided as the official chain. Who in their right mind is going to choose code that wouldn't work in their best interest? Long before it would get a chance to be implemented someone would catch on and many would not adopt the code. Another ETC ver2 would be created and people would support that.
Upcoming:
The Dao was a bailout or a roll back.