Core dev has never been driven by community, its been driven by contributions commenting on PRs

If you want one platform then we all have a say (consensus is with the node runners); if core dev are autocrats the you have many forks. There's no have your cake and eat it too on this.

And when people came to contribute by commenting on this BIP and PR who are not recognized members of core, they were censored and shut down. How can they contribute? If you keep them at arm's length, you don't really deserve to point at them at the same time and say that they don't have a voice because they don't use it. This is about the point where the next commonly used oversimplified argument from the core side comes in that the plebs are too stupid to understand why this is a good idea. Then there's, they're not real people, they're bots. I'm not even arguing with your position if you notice. I'm basically pointing out why the point at which this argument is being made is doing more damage than good. I currently run knots on a node in Texas and core on a node in Finland.