What's wrong with XT?

[Adrian-x]

I was hoping to get a discussion going on what are the disadvantages of XT, but no one has brought anything in specific up.

Please! Someone attempt to persuade me

My biggest problem with XT, and why I would never support it, is it gives all of the decision making powers to two people and two people only, and one of those two can override the other in extreme cases.  There is nothing more centralized than a system where 1 single person controls all aspects of said system.

Source: https://bitcoinxt.software/faq.html#who-is-involved

Decisions are made through agreement between Mike and Gavin, with Mike making the final call if a serious dispute were to arise.

actually users still have the final say, if you dont like what Mike of Gavin are deciding, you can always switch to Core of btcd or some other implementation I hope there will be many. The more choice the better. The first step is wrestling the control away from the one centrally controlled repository, so far 2 out of 5 with commit access would like to do that starting with XT.   

[subwoofer12]

My biggest problem with XT, and why I would never support it, is it gives all of the decision making powers to two people and two people only, and one of those two can override the other in extreme cases.  There is nothing more centralized than a system where 1 single person controls all aspects of said system.

Source: https://bitcoinxt.software/faq.html#who-is-involved

Decisions are made through agreement between Mike and Gavin, with Mike making the final call if a serious dispute were to arise.

But Core's the same way...

https://bitcoin.org/en/development#bitcoin-core-contributors

Gavin and I can’t be ‘dictators’ because all we do is write software: if we go crazy, or do other things you disagree with, XT can be forked in exactly the same way as we did.

[muyuu]

Gavin and I can’t be ‘dictators’ because all we do is write software: if we go crazy, or do other things you disagree with, XT can be forked in exactly the same way as we did.

That argument makes makes it absolutely pointless to advocate XT because Core's governance is too intransigent. XT is even more intransigent. In Core they will usually admit code with a simple majority and despite Blockstream having majority, they don't typically agree any more than other contributors do among themselves.

See https://www.reddit.com/r/bitcoin_unlimited/comments/3jly8t/introducing_bitcoin_unlimited/