jamesob on Nostr: It's a long and pretty boring conversation, and nobody's fault per se. But the phrase ...

It's a long and pretty boring conversation, and nobody's fault per se. But the phrase "tyranny of structurelessness" comes to mind. Incentives on the development side are not really aligned for longterm success IMO. Bitcoin's project structure is very much an experiment; basically every other major opensource effort has clear leadership structure (if not a BDFL). In bitcoin this would obviously be An Issue (unless there were multiple competing implementations), but the sclerotic and meandering development cycle demotivates talented devs all the same. I've spent five years working on a project that, in commercial settings, would have been merged within a month. It just gets really old.