Why is it that everyone who supports segwit has to be a condescending asshole all the time?
This is a major question many people ask and a phenomena that made many people escape bitcoin.
The best explanation I heard was posted yesterday in another forum:
The age of deference to authority will never end. It's in our blood, a tribal instinct. That is why Core's position is the default among the unthinking masses and especially junior coders who look up to the "wizard" heroes at Core.
Over the years I have looked at many fields and found that the marks of a field being fleeced by authority figures are pretty universal. Most salient is that semantic games always figure prominently: equivocation, weasel words and vague terms like "consensus," constant goalpost shifting, appeals to tribal identity ("cypherpunks"), circular arguments rinsed down with appeals to authority, blatant double standards, censorship in the name of free speech, buzzwordism, extremely short public memory just like in political cycles, the genetic fallacy, slippery slope, etc.
Hope this helps to understand some kind of mindset without disrespecting them. Everybody is human.
You are so badly mistaken it's funny! You won't find a more anti-"authority" poster here than me (see links in sig) and I'll tell you that's it's obvious to me that the forkers have no good arguments to push their position the way they are still doing. This is about technical and philosophical arguments, which you can come to understand(/overstand/innerstand), without having to defer to some "expert". But you don't care about that, it seems. You stick to initial perceptions and assumptions. The quote you posted is extremely pertinent, but it goes both ways, you see -- the forkers really have nothing at all to their arguments except the perceived "authority" of Gavin and a few others.
What's actually happening is this:
It was inevitable that these forkers would eventually target segwit, which was widely acclaimed as a completely uncontroversial fix when it was first released.
The governance coup that they are attempting is founded on disrupting any and all progress that doesn't belong to 'their vision' of progress. If it wasn't segwit it would be whatever Core was currently working on.
And that "Hope this helps to understand some kind of mindset without disrespecting them" PC BS is incredibly self-destructive, BTW. See no evil, hear no evil, allow all evil. It's what's leading your country to a civil war!