I appreciate your calm and reasoned take on this. Certainly the Devs are shocked to be questioned.

Listening to Adam yesterday, i did hear in his voice the realisation that they have lost the community, although he called it the free market demand.

Also, Despite the calls for Knots to fork- Adam was already working through the next soft fork in his head - to fight spam as the community want.

The v30 release is also not yet guaranteed as Adam said, i am for the first time starting to think the Devs may come back to the table before pushing it without widespread support.