> ...failed so hugely to understand how Bitcoin works,

Over-interpreted/mis-evaluated the events of SegWit drama in 2017. 

Since, as you say, they haven't learned that error, they're like to make the same mistake again in a not-so-far-off future

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I'm still struggling to understand why people who supported BIP 110 failed so hugely to understand how Bitcoin works, and in my book, their opinions aren't worth much consideration until they are better able to articulate what many reasonable bitcoiners were telling them for the last few years (ie the only power any node has is to reject a payment as not real).

There were plenty of people explaining to them that the way they thought forks worked was not the way they work. I find lacking de Wolf's explanations for why he was willing to ignore reason for the sake of moral righteousness.

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I'm still struggling to understand why people who supported BIP 110 failed so hugely to understand how Bitcoin works, and in my book, their opinions aren't worth much consideration until they are better able to articulate what many reasonable bitcoiners were telling them for the last few years (ie the only power any node has is to reject a payment as not real).

There were plenty of people explaining to them that the way they thought forks worked was not the way they work. I find lacking de Wolf's explanations for why he was willing to ignore reason for the sake of moral righteousness.