Nice to see another, I recently went back to your HORNET thread, a similar concept... library-ification is where the puck is going (rightly IMO)

Probably more pragmatic, but any attempt is good, as a failed attempt can still fail-forward

Roughly the same subject came up between @k00b and I in his thread about L1 vs L2 multi-implementation risks #1317912

TLDR being a distinction between "implementations" and "distributions", a really good library decentralizing distribution is the cure to the Politburo effect that's plaguing Core. BTCD is a great example of a long term stable working alt-implementation, that's rarely used as an implementation, but widely distributed as a library (LND).