Bitcoin is not in a perfect state rn far from it. But that does not change the fact that knots has been a bad faith movement built on lies from jump street. I'm honestly surprised and disappointed to see how many maxis were stupid enough to fall for it. Feels bad man. Pain is the greatest teacher I suppose,

I agree with that but also think the division caused in the community should be enough to signal that these additions to the Blockchain are simply not desired by many. The argument that the solution is trial by fire of adoption in the market is understandably rational from a game theoretic perspective but am not sure it's the most positive approach. To me, it simply results in an irrational distraction from the original intent of the cypherpunk movement. Sometimes, the simplest of tools have the most profound impacts

Um, the reason the backend of the chain takes significantly longer is because "assume utxo valid" no longer applies past a certain block height. Your node only fully validates the very recent chain history.

Bitcoin Core doesnt gauge its success by raw user adoption. Pleb nodes don't matter.