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Well his competitors are the obvious ones, but there are people here and there, but nvk used his influence to make sure they don't get visibility.
But is also more subte, the group would by default ignore those people as they talked back to nvk.
Besides Foundation, it seems that most people had a problem with the fact that he was an arrogant asshole. Personally, I couldn't listen to the guy talk for more than five minutes. But saying cold card wasn't secure? Problems with the code? I don't recall hearing that.
You make a good point. People who thought about self-custody were not surprised about a single point of failure failing. People who used multi-vendor multisig were pleasantly surprised and reassured they were right.
My multisig was a mix of hot wallet (Nunchuk), ledger, jade and other keys on Liana (unfortunately just a few wallets are miniscript compatible).
I think people at Casa are probably those who are pleasantly surprised. Expecting single points of failure failing, not multisig. Jameson Lopp talked about multi-vendor multisig way before Coldcard failed, this is how I got the idea.
One of the first example of big failure I have learned in computer science was a rocket which exploded because of a type issue (I think integer and float). Also the patriot missile, which blew up an American boat in the 90s if my memory is correct, is taught in textbooks.
I'm with you completely re the backdoor. The conspiracy theories seem far fetched.
This part I don't fully get:
First of all, who are these people who weren't blowing NVK? It seemed like a community orgy. Were they hiding?
Secondly, they were not surprised? It seems to me that everyone was surprised. Who wasn't surprised?