@franky1 I don't understand why you insist in the constant bashing and ridiculous ad hominem attacks against gmaxwell.
No, I am not a "groupie fan" as you say. While I do appreciate the work of Core there are some things I don't completely agree. Ie: At the time, I would have preferred that consensus went for Segwit2x, it didn't happen though... And consensus is much more important than some political/technical details.
I am an L2/LN fan though. You seem to be not, it's ok.
You seem to have studied or at least devoted enough time to learning many of the technical details of Bitcoin and to be somewhat knowledgeable in the subject. In contrast, some of your conclusions or narrative seem to be wrong. For example it has been clearly demonstrated that your strong narrative against Minisketch and some of your support points were (either intentionally or not) completely misleading and/or plainly wrong.
If you focused your effort in more objective facts instead of trying to desperately find arguments to support your preconceived and misleading conclusions maybe you would be way more constructive. Just saying.
@gmaxwell Thank you very much for all the clarifications and your contributions to Bitcoin!