The problem is that some people (e.g. Lauda) instantly dismiss anyone who tries to have a reasonable discussion with them as being a shill, troll, or whatever.

On /r/bitcoin you can't even mention non-core clients without your posts or comments being removed.

On here people verbally attack you for daring to challenge the consensus.

This isn't "consensus" you fuckwits, it's you trying to shout down anyone with a "dissenting" viewpoint from yours or Blockstream's.

How do people explain the miners mining classic blocks right now? Is that your consensus? Are you saying the miners are as stupid as the people running the classic nodes? As the people working on forks of core? As the people who hang out in /r/btc because they are censored in the "official" bitcoin subreddit?

People have this anti-intellectual "us or them" mentality that prevents real discussion of the technical merits of each strategy.

FWIW I can't help feeling a bit of schadenfreude at this so-called "spam attack", after my and my friend's classic nodes were repeatedly DDOS'd over the past week.