Correct me if I'm wrong but as far as I know knots is a patched version of core?
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Bitcoin Knots is a fork of Bitcoin Core yes, but that does not mean it can’t one day itself become Bitcoin’s reference implementation.
(There is no strict or official definition for what is Bitcoin’s reference implementation, but if most of the Bitcoin economy switches to Knots that would go a long way to de facto making it so.)
Indeed. Sovereignty.
Everyone gets to pick for themselves.