So your take is that devs are going full "political" rather than technical? (serious question)
If yes, what's the way to unlock this impasse?
Exactly. The heavy political bent of the core developers was obvious to me since I joined this forum. I just underestimated the amount of internal tension and mutual distrust within that group until the March 2013 event.
My proposal was published late 2011 and I always wear it in my signature:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=54382.0In one sentence:
Don't sign political slogans like "Chancellor on the brink...", sign the "digital prospectus" specifying exactly the rules of consensus and explicitly track their inevitable changes as the world evolves, including through the splits and joins that form a DAG (directed acyclic graph), not just forks.
Posted in this thread couple of days ago:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=68655.msg11664787#msg11664787