i didn't study it real close, there's a book about it, but all kinds of fud, smears, sock puppets, ultra bad takes, and deceptive proposals. even lawsuits i think. kreg keeps doing the lawsuits thing too, he lost against someone last year. and not to mention the several hard forks and all the victory laps from vitalik and co.

it was bad then and it will be even worse now that the value has gone better than 10x and even more people are trying things. look at drivechains, still big blockers, still craig fricking wright, udi, all the scammers...

there hasn't been a hard fork of bitcoin in over a decade and i suspect there won't be one for at least another decade, the longer it stays the same the more likely it is going to stay the same longer.