This is probably one of the key areas where I feel vulnerable in #bitcoin. I'm sure the transparency is there for me to hunt down myself but I really want someone to crystallise change logs/release notes for me in a more digestible way. I've basically stopped all node updates for now. View quoted note →

More configurability I would say. There are a number of things that Core have done to make it a little hard to maintain forks of it, like hard coded names distributed throughout many files. It requires additional changed files and sometimes more iterative testing and revision after multiple commits. I don't know the full scope of the differences though. You can inspect them yourself with a git diff between the two forks.

This is the correct answer.

Kevin is correct. This is Murch paltering. Most of Cores arguments rely on technically truthful statements that are intended to deceive. If you ask him to elaborate he will retreat into “it’s not worth my time”.