If Bitcoin Classic wins then Gavin is going to be the "benevolent dictator" (which I think has always been his desire).
I'm not choosing sides. I'm completely neutral on the whole block size situation.
But how does your statement above hold true if Gavin willfully gave up the CORE dev position to someone else?
Gavin did not give up anything except a meaningless title. Essentially he stopped doing the coding work. The title changed to show the reality. Political work and blog posts is all I see coming from him now. Meanwhile core developers have been providing real scaling solutions. Pieter Wuille was fakin coding on new Years Eve!!
Credit to Gavin though for his contribution earlier in the project.