...eh? Good, so where does this holy consensus fit in then?
And by "holy" I mean "unassailable".
Majority; not everyone. Would you be more comfortable if all the Core developers were quickly reaching consensus among themselves especially in regards to their own proposals? Some have already been called out because of Blockstream even though it is pretty obvious that they don't share the same views.
Ok, now we're getting somewhere. So by consensus you mean majority. Regardless of what they do and where they are in the system. I see they've even got Charlie Lee to sign it. Kind of begs the question: majority of what?
To be clear, I'm not even saying that there isn't consensus among key people in the community, just that there are enough key people in dissent for there to be room for differing viewpoints. And when you get to the general community level there really is no good reason to force consensus. And as you must have seen, it doesn't even work. And this insane hunt for shills in this forum is seriously unhealthy. I don't believe hdbuck, iCEBREAKER or even brg444 are shills. And even if they were, so what? Judge them on what they write(as I have done many many times, admittedly with a little colour added). If words can wreck this party then there really isn't any point in trying anyway.