No, Luke is obviously correct here. You can't have a serious money if the mining pools can just decide to ignore node runners whenever they want to, or are pressured to. Again, there was no URSF, but rather just behind the scenes lobbying. Large mining pool operators chose to side with Core and Saylor and against node runners. How many times will you need to observe this happening before you understand that node runners are no longer in control on BTC? It's simply not true that XBT is highly centralized, nor that everyone needs to do what Luke says. For example, we're about to do a soft fork that Luke is against. Care to discuss miner diversity on the SHA-256 chain?
Remember when Bitcoiners used to hope and pray that Amazon would start accepting Bitcoin soon? You never even hear that on the wish list anymore. About 1% of Bitcoiners care about medium of exchange. You can't expect the world to use Bitcoin as money if even Bitcoiners won't
When BIP-110 activates, what will happen to the valuations of David Bailey's UTXO Management funds? How full of spam cos and Bitcoin L2 affinity scams are they? Could that help to explain David's recent hysterics?