I said this more than 3 years ago. Money/funding to pay "bitcoin devs" only serves to centralize and to put grifting parasites as gatekeepers. We saw exactly that happen, culminating on core v30. Now we have proven the "expert class" logical fallacy has enough social capital sway that most bagholders have no understanding of what just happened. They sided with "the experts" and thought the failure of BIP110 "proves" those in favor of it were wrong. No, it proves exactly the state of where we are today. Miner pools, not miners, have taken control of bitcoin. Part of the OP_RETURN justification is to increase miner revenue, maybe the only justification. Is core beholden to miner pools? We can only wonder.
BIP110 was what should have been the LEAST CONTROVERSIAL change to bitcoin, to undo what core did against the will of most devs and noderunners, and against the interests of the long term viability of bitcoin itself. It was met with resistance by the mining pool operators. The "influencoors" dogpiled on BIP110 supporters as "radical" because of some kind of personal beef they have with its author. Then when the mining pools rejected the MASF, they celebrated victory. Victory over what? You think you made bitcoin better? Do you even know what you are saying when you repeat the "censorship" lie?
Well, here we are. Congratulations coretards, you annealed bitcoin centralization into the psyche and you think bitcoin is healthier as a result.