Yikes dude. Ocean is a participant, knots is the software.

Many people run old versions of Bitcoin, are they all censoring because their node doesn't validate any segwit data?

Nobody is coming for anyone, releasing competing versions is healthy for the ecosystem and the network, which is hard for monero folks to wrap their heads around, blindly following every hard fork.

If you don't like knots you are free not to use it or mine with ocean. Let the free market work.