It would be more productive if you were specific instead of vague. The vague allegations, devoid of context, just come across as toxic themselves-- a character attack, rather than a complaint about something specific that could be handled better.
You have attacked
me with character attacks by viciously claiming on Reddit that I had sold my credentials, and even sent me an e-mail out of the blue one day asking how much I "sold out" for. I don't have time to look through your extensive post history on /r/btc, but I remember you spent years wrestling with pigs and constantly harassing and deriding people that wanted to "improve the world". I attacked these people too in similar ways, and many of them
were incompetent, but I think you out of all people aren't in a position to preach the value of polite discourse, since you're one of the more toxic/controversial figures in the Core team.
I'm disappointed, I think I explained directly and via analogy as to why this is the case but it doesn't seem to have been communicated to you. Perhaps someone else will give a go at translating the point, if its still unclear.
Yes, this was your analogy:
Imagine a bridge construction crew with generally good safety practices that has a rare fatal accident. Some government bureaucrat swings in and says "you're constructing too fast: it would be okay to construct slower, fill out these 1001 forms in triplicate for each action you take to prevent more problems". In some kind of theoretical world the extra checks would help, or at least not hurt. But for most work there is a set of optimal paces where the best work is done. Fast enough to keep people's minds maximally engaged, slow enough that everything runs smoothly and all necessary precautions can be taken. We wouldn't be to surprised to see that hypothetical crew's accident rate go up after a change to increase overhead in the name of making things more safe: either efforts that actually improve safety get diverted to safety theatre, or otherwise some people just tune out, assume the procedure is responsible for safety instead of themselves, and ultimately make more errors.
This analogy is flawed and makes no sense. Bridge construction is completely different from software engineering through the open source process. Construction is a linear thing, you can't build multiple "prototypes" of real physical bridges and test them and choose between them, you need to build the entire thing once, and in this context you would be correct that it makes more sense to keep minds maximally engaged. But in Bitcoin Core, developers can work in their own branches with total freedom, and no red tape, so I fail to see how they wouldn't be engaged? There's nothing stopping them from working "optimal paces" in their own branch and then opening a pull request after their sprint to try to get the change merged in. There already exists a testing/review step, IMO there's no harm in making this step slightly longer and encouraging the community to try to break and mess up a new feature. Bounties can be paid to try to break stuff too.
Anyway I'm exiting this discussion because I feel like we're going to go around in circles and derail the thread, and I've said what I wanted to say. I think we should take the personal issues to PM or something. Cheers.