Fair enough. Yeah maybe my previous post was too hand-wavy... AFAIK there is no implementation with bitwise symmetry to Core's consensus.

I guess if Core went rogue there would be disruption to global consensus, but my overall point is that theoretically there's nothing that stops everyone from abandoning core and migrating to an existing or a new alternative in the future.

I think there's even compelling reasons why Core should be abandoned in the future for a memory safe alternative like a rust implementation because of security reasons alone. I think ~30%+ of CVEs are memory safety issues, which a Rust implementation (with its own consensus engine) would be immune to by default.