Core is the reason everyone turned to the only other option. You've only yourself to blame.
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Buddy, there are half a dozen other options. Actual standalone Bitcoin client implementations that aren't based upon Core.
Core is/was the reference implementation, if you want to make arbitrary changes, fork it yourself but don’t touch Core.
This. If Core wouldn’t have pushed and merged code arbitrarily despite all the contention about the issue, we wouldn’t be here.