And yet knots adoption is growing rapidly. This would suggest a problem or distrust with core, despite your arguments. Logical reasoning is fine, but it's only a small part of the real world.
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Yes distrust is growing because it's easy to politicize an issue most of the people really don't know anything about.
Exactly. As bitcoin grows it's only going to get more heated I think. The ratio of devs to non-devs will get much smaller, making it even harder to gain social concensus