In what way did the *proposed* change that was proposed on its technical merits alone not fit your desired "culture?" Conforming to your desired "culture" was never a requisite for protocol development. And you say I'm the one on a high horse?
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Taking the freedom of choice away from nodes and centralising control over Bitcoin so that bad actors can add bloat ware to the blockchain makes no fucking sense man.
It's a bad idea
yes, actually. the project has a culture as all groups of people do.
having concern for its direction is a valid concern as a user of the software produced.