That’s all true, but what are the alternatives? For all we know, the shady changes in Core 30 might’ve been pushed by government hands, BlackRock, or some proxy of theirs. Most of the Knots crowd were glad they didn’t need to force a user-activated fork just to keep policy sane. But defaults rule, and the majority kept running obviously compromised code — along with the moral and legal mess that implies. At this point, fixing it through a consensus change seems like the only real move left, even if it’s not ideal. Doing nothing just tells the controllers we can’t self-regulate and that we’re waiting for the big boys to “save” us.