Not sure who you mean by Sam but if its Samson Mow, he is very very good actor, mate. Definitely fuck Peter Todd, absolute bad actor and given Livera's knowledge and his stance fuck him. Adam Back is very unfortunate case. But at least I see a good acting from Andrew Poelstra who works in Blockstream. Here is the mailing list discussion of the soft fork that fixes the Core V30 insanity.

[bitcoindev] [BIP Proposal] Limit ScriptPubkey Size >= 520 Bytes Consensus.

and here is a discussion on Github https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/pull/2017/commits/3c718237072c107ced8c3531a487354fbdae55df