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.
be that as it may, if bitcoin kicks the bucket all cryptos will likewise bite the dust since they are altogether associated with bitcoin . so it is as yet pointless regardless of whether they will make countless new coins ordinary . bitcoin did not likewise kicked the bucket , not even once , twice or thrice since what did really happen is a market crash/revision and control which result at the cost to drain and wind up dormant .