The alternative node is not the issues and has in practice done very little for decentralization. Your node is your business.
The issue is an emergency soft fork and the insinuations that anyone who doesn’t support it is a pedo. It’s not an emergency and if you have serious reservations around the current consensus model you would hard fork.
Luke’s views on the state are relevant to the consensus systems we adhere to. He will readily sacrifice privacy and this is a slippery slope for a system that is under constant nation state attack.
Kratter has moved from one demagogue to another who share the same authoritarian leanings and th same insane biblical delusions. He clearly has a blindness when it comes to autocratic personalities.