So Gavin Anderson, a bitcoin core developer, recently alluded to switching over clients from Bitcoin core to Bitcoin XT, and this was all done because his idea of drastically changing the blocksize within 6 months to a year, from 1 MB to a enormous 20 MB was met with a , no no, by the other core developers.
Is this what Bitcoin has turned into, a centralized manipulative joke? One developer using his "fame" in the community to persuade others to give into his demands? Is this really happening right now? Am I fricking dreaming?