Some context would help here.
This "fire Core" situation reminds me of Uber. You can be killing it 24/7 and still get fired if you cause enough non-technical damage.
This is the first I heard of pruning, I had to delete bitcoinqt when it got too big for my laptops SSD over a year ago.
"What did X ever do for us?" is the standard catch phrase of this guy in any pirate movie wanting to take command of the ship.
It's not the words of somebody who wants to help anybody, just somebody wanting the power.
The whole point of open source software is that you can fork a project away from the original developers.
Why do people seem to assume that those most capable of implementing the cryptography, networking, or other code are also those most capable of understanding the economics of cryptocurrencies or determining their future?
Most of the arguments against the core team revolve around the economics and future of the coin, but the tech team seems to think that somehow their coding experience gives them insight into that.
Bitcoin seems like technically great but it fails on many of the economic aspects (e.g. making a currency with a fixed amount basically ensures it can never be used to write long term counteracts in).