Large groups of well paid, organized, funded professionals with clear objectives and good management - (like R3, hyperledger, ethereum, others) are sure making those Core programmers look like the silly little whiny bitches that they are. Core is going NOWHERE and getting there pretty damn fast. Meanwhile, very sophisticated advance is being done every day in other part of crypto/blockchain.
This is 100% the end of bitcoin as we know it. Good thing too. This 'open source', 'no leadership', 'no organization' thing was always a load of bullshit.
no bitcoin is not dead, it's healthy as never, look at price, it rises each day, look at all these new sites that opens now and accepts bitcoins, also you probably heard about halving, it will rise price of bitcoin and price will be very huge then so i don't think that it will die in next 15 years for sure