Oddbean new post about login | logout I find it strangely surreal to see people I respect like @ODELL, @jack and @Jameson Lopp continue to post and repost hot takes which essentially amount to ad hominem attacks on the community. It’s like the bitcoin equivalent of identity politics. It might seem virtuous but it polarizes and undermines the community.
They also seem to be reductive or misleading takes. Being in favor of no more protocol changes ≠ no maintenance on the protocol.
I’m struggling to make sense of the whole thing.
The more likely scenario is we're talking past each other due to holding different definitions or assumptions. For example, the claim that "no more protocol changes doesn't equate to no more protocol maintenance" doesn't compute for me. It sounds like a conflation of maintaining client software implementations and actual protocol development. Software has to be constantly maintained. Protocols don't. But there's always room for improvement.