Any martial artist knows that defense is a joke. To only defend is to guarantee a loss. As you may have heard it said before, the best defense is a good offence.

Personally I intend to use bitcoin. Other people using it only matters to me if I am trying to transact with them.

As the privacy advocate you have positioned yourself as in the past, I can't see how you square insisting on a node implementation that blocks on chain privacy by default and nosing around in controlling transactions you aren't a party to.

I don't support the changes but Luke's history is very much that of someone who doesn't support privacy or the cypherpunk ethos. I'll just not update or switch to libbitcoin before I follow him.