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.
Isn't Core/BS pretty well funded as well? How many sane people here actually think that Core devs consciously sabotage the long term strategic development? Maybe this inner Bitcoin problem is the reason that the "Lindy effect" still seams to work for Bitcoin as a currency relative to other cryptocurrencies but it looks incapable in terms of making Bitcoin strong in opposing incumbent finance that is trying to wear "blockchain disguise"?