It doesn't matter what your reservations are about Luke,

What matters is that it's not only Luke making the decision on your node software.

Luke is obviously championing a small/light-as-possible-block paradigm - and I'm here for it,

even though I didn't agree with him about segwit...

I do agree with Mechanic & Luke that Core competition is necessary & have been interested in knots for a couple years now - I just kept hoping he'd get some more voices in the room by establishing one or two more titled contributors.

I know funding is an issue, and I see Odell / OpenSats offering a grant to knots directly here on Nostr.

So hopefully this happens, as I think it's a great development for Bitcoiners!