And who knows history better than the core devs !

I actually see it as a win win .. core devs always resist change .. now holdlers too wanna resist change .. Bitcoin code is becoming as immutable as the ledger itself .. Not sure what the issue here is .. as far as funding is concerned, that's a trivial things.. Satoshi has billions of dollars to fund anything if he wants to .. open source development isn't contingent upon money .. they do it because that is what they do ..its their Karma ..