Regarding MoE, you might consider that sometimes people's words are meant for some specific ears and don't necessarily represent one's actual interests. I other words, it might be opportune, at least for now, for certain people to not considers Bitcoin to be a competitor. "This large wooden horse is a gift!"

Trying to steelman Saylor’s possible perspective … funding devs could be dangerous because they don’t know when to stop building. Recent changes expanded the block size in a obscure way and we got ordinals and network spam. Chances are extremely dangerous because they likely require an (almost) impossible hardfork to remove. Better to slow down development and really think things through before adding any other major features. Fewer, more experienced devs can take care of maintenance while major changes are baked longer. 🤷‍♂️