Within the Bitcoin Core community, critique is treated as a one-way privilege: they gleefully deride Knots and its supporters, yet recoil in outrage when the mirror is turned on themselves. What is framed as principled scrutiny in one direction suddenly becomes heresy in the other. The result is an almost comic hypocrisy—Core developers masquerade as guardians of open debate while insisting on a kind of rhetorical diplomatic immunity for their own positions.