There should be more than one implementation of the bitcoin protocol.
Also, there might be legitimate use cases for "enterprise" style full nodes etc.
I could think of a thousand reasons why XT could be useful, but the most important ones will likely be the ones I can't imagine right now.
Exactly. What is wrong with the goal of decentralizing development across multiple competing implementations?
what is LTC? if not a competing implementation.
what we really need is to somehow continue to improve bitcoin in the best possible way.
if we stand still a competing implementation WILL FOR SURE eventually becoming bigger and better then bitcoin.