Bitnodes has a chart for listening node versions here: https://bitnodes.io/dashboard/1y/#user-agents

For some I'm sure it is. It's mostly emotional though - to the extreme.

Do you know of any sites that measure subversion prominence over time rather than just snapshots? I don't want to unleash yet another spider onto the network.

optimism

Yeah, one would think that people running a mining pool would understand the bigger picture and be able to argue with more nuance about this issue. At times it feels like a marketing campaign for Knots.