It definitely does. It is not even a debate anymore but just mud throwing and super wild speculations about potential outcomes from both sides.

I don't even mind a meaningful debate but if you can't convince the counterparty with your arguments just stop right there and don't continue over dramatizing this so much, it's not worth it because it leads only to hate.

Run your knots or your core, fork one, make your own node implementation and move on. There will be parts of the network running each and it it causes problems we'll have to deal with it then and there.