drivel merchants with a fetish for antagonising and tribalising every contentious topic on bitcointalk and who achieve "legendary" status with it. 
Aww poor thing. You are obviously upset because you'll never be Legendary and resent my ability to research contentious topics, analyze, form opinions, and defend those opinions.
You can buy my account for 100 BTC and I'll promise not to make another one.
If you're too poor to afford that, please consider fucking off to DashScamTalk or voat's /v/bitcoinxt subverse (places where I won't hurt your feelings).
they've sat on their hands in the "scaleability" debate and lost the initiative is strategic, not technical...
BIPs 100-104 demonstrate the devs have not been sitting on their hands. Please calm down and stop exaggerating.
The debate is technical, regardless of your desire to make it a popularity contest:
