So, now we have the core developers promoting a new
economic policy for Bitcoin which is essentially based
on Bitcoin being a settlement layer. The most vocal
proponents of Core's roadmap embrace their economics
and say "well, Bitcoin can't be all things to all people.
Bitcoin was never supposed to be coffee money.
You should do things like off-chain, on the LN."
(Which btw was never an economic policy of
Gavin or Satoshi, but that's another story).
Bingo!
Core is trying to drastically change bitcoin into something else, and are trying to take control over the project.
And yet many people accuse BU for trying to take control, even though BU just wants to keep bitcoin the way it always was.
I also think Andeas should speak up against Core but he seems to lack the balls to do so.