Bad take. Knots is a fork of core, meaning its codebase is the result of every core dev code commit + @Luke Dashjr's on top of it. Not to mention Luke has made dozen of bug fixes in Knots compared to Core. If you are not happy with him having the final say, that’s ok and I think other implementation besides Core and Knots are a good idea, but when you weigh in the tradeoffs Knots is the lesser evil at this very moment.