The outlook on that front is pretty bleak. Just seems like there is a complete lack of vision from Core. Not having a lead maintainer probably doesn’t help either.

Maxwell never said he is done with the soft forks or maybe I missed something.

The departure of Wuille and Maxwell matters because soft forks require social consensus around technical legitimacy — and those two carried significant credibility in that coordination process. Without them, the remaining question is whether the community can construct equivalent legitimacy throug...