The devs can change anything, it's just software. As long as miners, which are extremely centralized, agree it's the new chain.
I was a part of the bitcointalk forums in 2010 when the dev team created a soft fork that modified the blockchain to change consensus rules. THink about it, devs changed the consensus mechanism, that goes against everything bitcoin is supposed to be. They can do it again
No one who has spent any time actually studying the price fluctuations in Bitcoin would ever believe that a fixed currency supply helps with stabilizing coins. Bitcoin itself is probably the best proof that fixed currency supply doesn't help with reducing currency volatility.
We already see some currencies that are valued differently based on the current situation and who holds it, what's the difference with BTC? What safeguards it has that prevents such discrimination?
Someone saying something that affects the price has nothing to do with creating new Bitcoin. That's just a function of it being a small market still, relative to larger and more deeper capital markets.
If any developers tried to convince anyone to run Bitcoin software that debased their savings, they are going to have a very bad time.
I was a part of the bitcointalk forums in 2010 when the dev team created a soft fork that modified the blockchain to change consensus rules. THink about it, devs changed the consensus mechanism, that goes against everything bitcoin is supposed to be. They can do it again
https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Value_overflow_incident