Replace by fee is not a soft or hard fork, its no fork and zero 0 consensus on the network is needed. It is clear your understanding is poor, factually incorrect. Which is ok, not everybody has to know everything and you are still allowed to have differing opinions.
While differing opinions is ok, having such outrage and confidence in your views, making accusations against others, while having little knowledge about what it is you are complaining about, is unbecoming and frustrating.
It exposes your complains as not about the issues but simple about 'partisan loyalty'.
You have proven my point actually, that it does not require consensus. Core has also not sought consensus on this issue, I do not need to be a technical expert to know this.
Yes, but changing blocksize does require consensus and subsequently a lot of testing. You said there is hypocrisy.
I accused Core of hypocrisy because they said they would not implement any contentious changes. This is part of the reason they gave for not presently increasing the blocksize. However now they are releasing RBF which certainly is a contentious change. Without any debate, voting, time or even miner consensus, this is hypocritical.
Nothing in the protocol changed. There is absolutely 0 change to Bitcoin protocol. They did not implement any changes to the protocol.
This is not a change! Since they did 0 change to the protocol, they did 0 contentious change to protocol. Since they did not do a contentious change they have stuck to their work so there is no hypocrisy.
Clearly the comments were said in the context of changes to the consensus rules. Not to absolutely any changes to the client or wallet. You dont need consensus to change for example the colour of the buttons on core. That is not what they meant.
This is simply a change to the non-consensus working of one client, bitcoin core. Like you yourself said it is not special. Bitcoin is decentralised and there are many clients.
Thats not a problem as long as they follow the same protocol.