Devs have been saying for a long damn time that Hearn's role in Core development has been as a "cancer" that saps everyone's energy and constantly delays day-to-day work from being done. At some point, they will have gotten fed up. (Shrug)

Bitcoin is open source, Mike. Go fork off if you're unhappy, and if no one runs your shoddy code, you can fade off into irrelevance. (Oh, you've already begun that process )