As far as I am aware the Bitcoin Core developers are just a group of people that called their client "reference client" and are themselves very entangled with B

As far as I am aware the Bitcoin Core developers are just a group of people that called their client "reference client" and are themselves very entangled with Business interests of a particular company. They are not "official" and have no real authority to call their client "reference client" but somehow every time someone speaks about the NY Agreement it gets pointed out that Bitcoin Core has not signed. Who cares what they signed or didn't sign? They did sign the HK Agreement and then broke it shortly after. They have proven that they don't give a shit about such agreements. NY Agreement didn't lack developers (just not the Bitcoin Core Developers) and they didn't lack community support. Bitcoin Core is just very good at controlling communication channels through Censorship and Propaganda.