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.
I am quoting this post from April 07, 2016, 05:08:29 PM Forum time, and now its 2018 in the month of July and The crypto currency what we call Bitcoin who started the revolution and gives freedom to its users is still going strong even with the multiple market crash happened earlier this year and its value is freaking higher than the its value two years ago. The one that you call "open source, 'no leadership', 'no organization' thing" has a market capitalization of more than $120 billion US dollars and still the top one of all crypto currencies.

As we see in here even a shitty or garbage looking technology in our own point of views can still reach this far and can still achieve the impossible with the power of decentralization feature on its nature that no one controls it neither a central bank or a government can be the top crypto currency of this era. Even with lots of negativity around it and people spreading FUD with it, Bitcoin still manage to survive everything and it will continue to shock the world in the following years to come.
