Regardless of your feelings, these are people who will shape the future of bticoin, humongously more so than someone like nick szabo who just makes the occasional observation and most have no idea who he is, or care though of course he's made big contributions to the genesis of the whole thing. Going forward There are many more would be assholes actually building things and that's what'll directly affect us going forward.
Nick Szabo hearted my tweet to Vitalik Buterin about a hamburger chain and it really did make my day. I even screenshotted it for future bragging rights, among a very select group of nerds.