Gavin is playing the crowd and doing what the majority wants him to do. He knows most people want some upgrade on the block size and he compromised. Why? ...Let's say for
one moment he gets the consensus and everyone forgives him for the XT fiasco, what then? Do we trust him and his new partners with the development and Lead maintainers
position? Gavin did a great job, when he worked with Satoshi, then he ran to the CIA and Satoshi dissapeared and he took the Lead position... after that things changed. It will
take some time before people will trust him again.