No one has that view. Bitcoin software developers don’t want you to bow down. If fact, they don’t care what you do. The knowledge they have that you don’t isn’t secret, it’s 100% out in the open and all changes are done through an open source rough consensus process done in public. If you don’t like that Bitcoin is Bitcoin Core, you can run software that some dude changed to better fit your liking and hope it turns out good for you.
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First its not "some dude" but a number of Bitcoin developers, at least 10.
And second you may learn who is this "dude" from Matt's video, if you want.
I know exactly who Luke is. He’s probably one of the smartest bitcoin software code writers out there and a great individual contributor to Core. Why do you assume I’m talking about Knotts? Anyone who is a software developer can make their own bitcoin implementation no? As far Knotts goes, how many of those other 10 developers have ever had an objection to one of Luke’s changes and are able to stop it from being implemented like in a rough consensus process that Core follows? The consensus of Core developers disagreed with some of Luke’s suggestions and stoped them which is why he has his own implementation. Knotts is Luke’s implementation and he does what he wants, isn’t he free to do that? Also, maybe he’d be happy being described as a dude.