The development process is open, you can join the mailing list if you want to be in on their "secrets" , SW has been discussed to death since 2011.... where have you been?
Reading several things, including the dev mailing list (including that letter by Satoshi, and various bickerings between the devs until Gavin and Mike left. And Greg unsubsctibed.)
But almost no one reads the dev mailing list, or even the forums; and very few understand what it is discussed there. Saying that "alerts are not needed because it was discussed in the dev mailing list mor months" reminds me of a certain incident in
The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy...
I can certainly tell you haven't coded much, if any, before as the real reason devs prefer soft-fork is because of the possible bugs and complications that rolling out hard forks that aren't backwards compatible create.
Actually I have been programming almost daily for the last 40 years. And I have watched from front row some of the best software developers in the world as they worked. As well as some terrible ones.
That is why I think that swapping Gavin for Greg was a disaster for bitcoin...
You appear to be holding unfounded and irrational conspiracies which can easily be proven false.
Care to name some?
Perhaps you mean my belief that Blockstream and Viacoin are "conspiring" to retain control of the protocol and ensure a congested network because their business is to sell tools for off-chain transactions?
You are looking at
miners adoption, not relay nodes or clients, right?