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.
We might not be happy with the direction bitcoin developers are taking use. But it is safe to say that bitcoin is even remotely close to dying. It won't happen, not with the market cap we achieved. The only problem of bitcoin for now is the solution to the block size scaling problem. This status of affairs is already attracting some anxiety and it is toxic to even talk about it. Other than that we are fine as a community.