Your sense of discernment seems strong from this write-up and is well summed up here :

And this paragraph immediately following on is also perceptive :

There have been many people who considered themselves the 'main character' in Bitcoin who have then fallen from a great height during Bitcoin's history. People like Gavin Andresen, Mike Hearn & Jeff Garzik. Bitcoin doesn't need any key person (it would fail if it did). Satoshi set this example very early on by disappearing completely from the project himself and relatively early on (i.e. within about 3 years if you count from when he first ran a beta of Bitcoin before publishing the White Paper).

The two key characters behind the Knots putsch very clearly have a 'saviour' complex and are control freaks. There are many, many, mostly quiet but very serious & intelligent people who see right through the empty 'crisis' that the Knots putsch tries to sell and have mostly ignored it because they 1) know it will fail (because it can't succeed) and 2) don't want to engage with time-wasters. The lie that is being sold is mostly only swallowed by people who consume far too many Bitcoin podcasts hosted by mediocre intellects rather than thinking for themselves or looking at what the intelligent developers, who have a long history in Bitcoin, have written when they have chosen to engage (and then considered the merits of their arguments for themselves).