My post as the 'op' wasn't related to the Lukejr article. I'm not sure that article is credible or relevant...

But I do think there will be a fork eventually otherwise how will the concerns of the Knots enthusiasts be addressed or satisfied?

Clearly to them (which is totally their choice) running Core isn't acceptable, and neither is the spam. Spam isn't going to be 100% solved under core v30... and it isn't solved now either.

So a serious, meaningful solution needs to be found which invalidates such spam in blocks itself and if that invalidates 'core' blocks then it's a hard fork.

What am I missing?