I'll take this 'concern' as worth exploring.

methodology: compare pre/post commit activity (count and consistency) to see if there's any correlation with the drama. I'll use May 2025 as one cutoff date to start, and we can repeat this for other key moments or drill down into specific developers/maintainers

sorukumar

Maybe I’m reading too much into it, but it seems to show the commit count trending down since May 2025. It makes me think that the drama and general increase in harassment of Core contributors has been at least distracting Bitcoin Core contributors if not outright making them reconsider their career choices.