I think what can happen is those few devs create a fork, but it is each and every member of the entire node community that determines whether or not to implement the fork.
Which way will the majority...
Who'd be doing the forking then? Supporters of Knots or Core v30? Even so, if either version is as terrible for Bitcoin as each side says it is, then we're still ending up with a worse version of Bitcoin. Oh well, I guess I'll be watching.
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