Good, I'm sorry if it was disproportional.
My main questions were about skyrocket difficulty, a potentially unfair optimized miners, and an unfair take-over-control procedure.
As the miner is open-source now, and the difficulty chart can't be explained anyhow, the only one to ask you is how did it happen with the renaming and cloning the git.
We honestly have no idea where the hash power increase of the last 24 hours came from. No, it's not Noodle, since he was as surprised as anyone else. There are a lot of people with large amounts of computing power (even legally) and the increase 'only' corresponded to a few thousand CPUs. This community is not very big yet so large percent increases can still happen.
As far as 'take-over' goes, that does happen in altcoins occasionally. >50% of the hashpower was represented in the meetings, which is the closest there is to "shareholders". TFT recently sent myself and a few others a PM saying he regrets not listening to the community more. I don't know how honest that is or isn't but it doesn't matter. There were good reasons for what happened with the way things were going with Bitmonero.
The dev disappeared for days at a time, did not even acknowledge feedback, and the OP still looks like a pre-ANN so newbies have no idea what to do or how to mine. This is much more decentralized and transparent, with bounties raised for the shortcomings of CN coin that affect MRO and BCN alike (GUI, open-source pool). This is what progress looks like to me. And I think that's acknowledged by the fact that even discounting the last 24 hr increase in hashpower, Monero still has the highest number of miners in CryptoNote.