Thanks for resharing the link to the medium article and direct link to the messages in this board. Not many people would look back at all the pages. I've read it once before and refreshed today again.

Feel like the team wants to create as much space as possible with the content there in. However all the technical highlights could be haunting them today. It 'appears' there are several reasons chain splits might occur. Hard to predict which one might have impacted a given chainsplit.

Worth a read if you want to learn more about the history of the project.