I to would like a third option.

When the coretards fork the blockchain knots will be the only Bitcoin node client and then we are back to the same problem of centralisation.

We need a bunch of different clients.

Centralisation creates vulnerability.

We need to learn from what these bad actors at core are doing and mak efforts to prevent it happening again in future.

This fork is pretty much inevitably now that the spammers and pedos are all attacking knots with all this disinformation like this are.