what's striking to me using the ignore is just how many pages and pages of posts TPTB-dick has been spamming to derail substantive and meaningful discussion. there is no doubt he has an alternative motive which is anti-Bitcoin.
I guess you can have
Any Colour You Like.
The motive has always been decentralization.
The debate is: is centralization of development the path to decentralization of nodes?
You just need 1 ring to rule them all.
lukejr who has abused this power in the past is part of a small block of Core developers, who argues the majority of developers think that 1 ring to rule them all central development is good.
There are other developers who are invested in technologies that will benefit from a delay in block size increase.
They also argue that we need decentralized nodes but they should use the centralized consensus of their development group
And developers outside that group aren't lead developers. (Paraphrasing nullc)
This approach is centralized control of nodes, it's not the decentralized goal I'm invested in.