I don't know man. I'm torn in this whole debate. Do you want censorship resistance and a free market or do you want low fees? My first take was like you said, core is too decentralized. My conviction say resistance and freedom but then politics comes in-silenced opposition-and that more than anything leads me to think fuck core. I really need to read into it more but there's so much fuckin homework.
Yeah. I'm not against more implementations. But knots ain't it unless more sane people start contributing on a regular basis, and even that would be a maybe. I'm hoping Libbitcoin will get cleaned up and become easier to run.