So at this point what exactly are you gaining ? A bitcoin that is more likely to be taken over by a single person?
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If Luke were to make changes that no one agrees with we would NOT update or run and older version of core like what users are doing right now
It's quite possible not enough people who matter are paying attention to knots code.
This is a real risk factor.
The moment he does something stupid, the moment I switch to Core implementation as I did with Knots.