[awemany]

> SegWit2x is basically the mining faction stealing the network away from the Core development group

That language is very revealing: It never belonged to 'the Core development group' in the first place.

[kbaker]

That is technically true, but the Core group has been stewarding Satoshi's original client since the genesis block. So a switch to another code base (even if it is a semi-recent code fork) is still a major event in Bitcoin's history.