The issue is these guys had good reasons to get people riled up. Could have been defused quickly if there was a consistent, logical argument coming out for changes but there wasn’t for a while. Instead we got gaslighting, “paternalistic censorship” and actively antagonizing comments.

It was a shift in thinking, communicated poorly, and the worst part was otherwise smart respected people dipping to unnecessary lows due to open source bad blood.

The outcome is instead of having a somewhat hard conversation about the reasons for core wanting to nuke mempool policy, we’re now having the conversation about whether people are going to run core at all. Much worse.

The solution isn’t more Luke bashing its core building trust with people again. Arguably the easier thing, the hard part is eating a bit of humble pie.