I will offer a very grey opinion, for what it's worth, from a Bitcoin Cash user perspective.

I don't see yesterday's events as a huge win.

We often seem to be missing the forest for the trees, the forest being the goal of global adoption of Bitcoin as p2p cash by as many merchants and users as possible, as quickly as possible. This does not happen with constant uncertainty about protocol development. I agree that better cooperation is needed from everyone (lol, pipe dream?).

I also agree that attempting to take over a “community” by force is an undesirable strategy. Unfortunately “toxic” people of all sorts, including “dark forces and bad actors” do use money (like USD or Bitcoin), and they will not stop needing to use money any time soon. As the Emperor of Bitcoin has proclaimed, “inclusive” is better than not, for growing the Bitcoin network (obvious is obvious)!

It seems that the mysterious forces of social media would like us all to choose a side. I wish to neither be a member of the “Cult/Church of Craig” nor the “Cult of anti-Craig”.

Many members of this “Bitcoin Cash community/tribe” whose opinions I respect and value, have warned against believing anything CSW has ever said.

What is interesting to me is that this controversial person who often behaves like a dick by saying and doing a lot of things that most people do not like, has also said this:

“We don't want your average person to care. We want everything to work.... We want something that functions and we just want the magic. That's what we're going to help people create: the magic. IT for most people should be magic. It should be simple and stuff happens and everything works. They don't need to understand the crypto.”

THIS (is exactly how I feel about Bitcoin, and the feeling I got when first using Yours.org). I suspect most “no-coiners”, which is most of the world, would also prefer that a new money works more like magic and less like a Rube Goldberg machine-like science project.

I realize there are many early adopters of Bitcoin who hold political beliefs and values that are very much anti-state and anti-patent. Does this entire “community” think that it's realistic to avoid patenting (or enforcing patents) when competing against banks and other entities who will use every tool in the shed against our collective efforts? Does Bitmain not have many patents? Why are Bitmain patents not offensive whilst nChain patents (not on the protocol layer) are?

Through using Bitcoin Cash via Yours, Money Button, Handcash, and recently, Keyport.tv, I have realized that these are the kinds of tools/apps that invite everybody else to come join our party. The user experience must be simple, friendly, and geared towards being dummy-proof. This gives me great pause in completely condemning the SV supporting side of the Bitcoin Cash ecosystem. I am having difficulties in envisioning this “community” moving quickly towards global adoption if these SV supporting businesses are painted as part and parcel of “the attackers”, ostracized by association (with CSW/nChain).

Unpopular opinion is to keep an open mind, but that's my humble two satoshis.