yep there isn't even a convincing argument on the technical aspect they are pushing. When you add on top all the fishy behaviours and interests involved it's a mess all over

Like you said, at the end, there is much positive from all this episode. We know that bitcoiners are still vigilant and not complacent (at least for now) and we are moving away from a core-monopoly as reference implementation

I hope to god that core devs who pushed for this sold themselves out for fiat gains (absolutely disgusting anyway) and not for allowing state control.

By the way I think we should try and reach out more to those core devs who are not part of this change and understood that core is compromised and they need to switch to another implementation (even better creating a new one)