Some of the people among the signatories were pushing "OP_CAT or gtfo" not many months ago. I've been in calls with a handful of them that were seeking support for their "cause". With the exception of literally a single soul among them, none would even entertain any arguments about Rusty's GSR proposal or CSFS back then. "It's inferior to OP_CAT". But now it isn't. I can't help but feel that for some of the people on there, this is just another lame pressure tool to get the Bitcoin protocol to change to support their vision.
I actually think [Core devs] get treated much worse.
True, but feature, not bug. Ultimate scrutiny is preserved for those that have out of proportionate influence. The only way I can think of that to lessen is when the full node ecosystem decentralizes away from being 95%+ Bitcoin Core, but I am not sure if that is desirable (because split focus sucks and it also really had the worst possible outcome for the lost cousins over at BCH (chain fork upon chain fork), so history doesn't favor this either.)
Not only do people act like Core devs are their unpaid employees, they think they're their unpaid employees on something really important.
The misplaced illusion of entitlement is of course terrible, but that's been common in open source since forever.
OP_CATor gtfo" not many months ago. I've been in calls with a handful of them that were seeking support for their "cause". With the exception of literally a single soul among them, none would even entertain any arguments about Rusty's GSR proposal or CSFS back then. "It's inferior toOP_CAT". But now it isn't. I can't help but feel that for some of the people on there, this is just another lame pressure tool to get the Bitcoin protocol to change to support their vision.