this social interest is also part of a paradigm shift that bitcoin brings. No elite is in charge to determine how money works.
So agree with you someway, the core devs should ignore noise, but people should engage on every level of the conversation. The digital realm makes filtering out noise very efficient, and every coscience will find his spot to express herself and discuss.
Also, all this drama is positive cause it bring us the idea that bitcoin needs multiple implementations to protect people from central points of failures and to make the network stronger.