I covered at the end of a podcast recently and will post when released. If you’re unsure or feel risk in not enough maintainers (yet) in knots, you can also just stay on V 29.

High level (for me) is this - this is the free market deciding (versus being told) what is right and that consensus is the thing that keeps Bitcoin decentralized and secure. Our own actions trying to determine what is right for us -

And seeing through the narrative of others (with potentially different objectives and incentives seeing what is right for them).

The biggest risk I personally see in Core V 30 is the increased potential for zero day attacks that wouldn’t be seen by the network and exploited by various malicious actors through programs interacting with it.

The ability to maintain core with very few programmers IS due to its small attack surface. By increasing the attack surface - to do more (Citrea etc) you introduce an increase in complexity that requires more security (and engineers) Like the cat and mouse of every other blockchain.

Others will have different opinions on this …but you asked for mine.