Your technical arguments appear to me to be sound and worthy of very serious consideration and debate. However, it’s important to acknowledge that many in the community feel Core initially dismissed their concerns and then doubled down, which fostered division and mistrust. While the technical rationale holds and is reasonable, the perception of arrogance has fueled ongoing controversy. Many believe Core leaders could have done more to build consensus and dialogue before pushing a fracturing change. Core devs feel insulted, attacked and unappreciated, personally threatened. This is more a community, political, leadership and governance issue than it is a technical issue. IMHO.
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Kaspa solves this and he knows it. He is just too prideful to admit it.
Let's recap:
- they were technically right
- misinformation campaign to discredit and shame them publicly was initiated
- this noise completely overwhelmed Bitcoin dev process and distracted people for months
if anything all this did was to further separate dev from angry mobs. not sure it accomplished it's intended goal you described.
best way to make change in the dev process is to become involved, gain credibility amongst current devs, and then put in your well informed technical review on these changes.
this is what everyone else involved in the dev process has done and will continue to do so, even in the presence of misinformed angry mobs.
