I discovered a few days ago that luke-jris maintaining this bitcoin node and wallet software. It is openly against the use of OP_RETURN for ordinals or whatever they want to throw there.

I see Luke jr is still active in both bitcoin core and bitcoinknots github.

Are a lot of people using Knotz?

I don't know much about it. I saw Cobra was talking that Knotz could become the new reference, so this comment brought my attention to this software.here.

Does anyone has more information about what else is going on here? I don't see such discussions in bitcointalk forum