The piece that Pete and the core sycophants miss with knots supporters is that we don’t like the idea of core devs having the power to push changes without respecting input from the wider community.

Additionally they are not more important than other users in the community. And their worldviews and thoughts on the direction and future of Bitcoin certainly aren’t. Once there’s consensus for change then we need devs to implement it. If they were all to quit tomorrow Bitcoin survives.

Whether or not Pete agrees, the knots camp sees core devs as a major threat to Bitcoin currently and thus there needs to be a check against them.