Looking back, the HK agreement was worthless from the get go. Do you remember when Adam Black signed it as "an individual" instead of signing as CEO of Blockstream?

Not long before the HK agreement was signed, Mike Hern rage-quit Bitcoin development, and this gave a lot of momentum away from bitcointalk, r/bitcoin, and most importantly, away from Core. Mike Hern rage-quitting was heavily reported by the Bitcoin related media, was even reported by the MSM, and the general consensus was that Core was standing in the way of Bitcoin development. The way things were going, it would not be very long until Core would lose all control over Bitcoin development, and the users would get what they wanted -- larger blocks that accommodate the growth of Bitcoin transactions. I am not even sure if the HK meeting was even scheduled at this point.

Once the HK agreement was signed, cold water was effectively thrown on the above movement and momentum because the community believed that Bitcoin would have real scaling solutions. Unfortunately, it turned out that the HK agreement was a farce, and every deadline in the HK agreement was missed, and all the promises made by Blockstream, and their devs were broken.

Maxwell is just a dishonest person, and people have been calling him dishonest on these forums for years. He is a very fitting person to be the Chief whatever officer of Blockstream. Not unlike how it is very fitting to have Lauda, who is an extortionist, to be helping with Core development, running a spell checker in-between his scam and extortion attempts.

Bitcointalk has traditionally been very friendly towards core, and it's supporters. I think it is very interesting to see the reaction to nullc posting in this thread.