Some Bitcoin Core developers have called the proposal as “technically sound,” while others have used the general argument against soft-forks and applied it to extension blocks. Overall, it appears opinion among Bitcoin Core supporters, including developers, is mixed.
Basically this destroys your* theory that Blockstream controls everything and other kind of nonsense propaganda which you fail to reject on BTU channels.
“This latest move is technically very clever, and politically brilliant.” – Emin Gun Sirer, Cornell Professor, told Forbes.
Why does anyone quote this person?
If he does merge, as he did segwit despite it clearly being highly controversial, then the Cryptowar may be over.
This is an example of why this article is clearly paid for. Segwit was everything besides controversial in the development community. Not to mention the bullshit assumptions that "No extension blocks" -> "Bitcoin is dead."