This to me is the whole point here.
Bitcoin came about because social consensus is really hard and messy. Bitcoin is a system by which people can agree to a minimum set of rules and reliably come to consensus no matter what.
As long as you subscribe to the consensus rules of Bitcoin, you will be able to agree with an unknown set of actors about updates to a ledger without any governing party. This is revolutionary and incredible.
If you don't believe that the consensus rules are enough (or very close to enough) for this system to succeed, you probably need to choose a different system.