With you 100% on this. There are a couple of people in particular I have in mind, though there are tons of others who I had no connection with that were influential.

By far the worst is Gavin Andresen. His idiotic participation in a 'private signing session' is forgivable. His point blank refusal to recant or explain, years later, is probably the single most destructive and immoral thing anyone in the bitcoin dev community has ever done.