Nothing is going on with bitcoin per se, what you are witnessing is first hand greed and what happens when a group of people don't agree. It should be no surprise where there are hundreds of millions and billions of dollars there is some form of corruption. I wish we could live in a utopia that didn't do this but this is the way the world is and you would be naive to not expect it especially in this industry.
The question is what can we do to hold those people accountable? Right now looks like the problem is evident and to me il looks like a bunch of kids are infesting twitter and reddit just trolling and harrassing people around instead of trying to solve the problem, and it looks like those trolls are in charge of what should be what is the revolution of our times. I think Bitcoin deserves something better, again, what can we do?