I’m a node on the network.

If someone holds their life savings in bitcoin they've effectively contributed all the value they've created for others that that savings represents. You may think the opinions of relatively non technical users don't matter but that's just showing us how naive and arrogant you are. The code is nice and all but without people staking their life savings on it its just fancy theoretical software on someone's computer, normie bitcoiners are what make bitcoin valuable not Peter Todd's amazing coding skills.