MIT doesn't support _any_ developers. MIT DCI pays MIT and is funded by undisclosed parties, but you never even care to ask about that. (And not that MIT is magically benevolent, in any case...)
We've tried for _years_ to get sustainable funding for development; but the Bitcoin 'industry' is just not interested.
> paying most of the top developers
Why do you keep repeating this misinformation? As I pointed out, e.g. three of the top ten by commit activity work for blockstream (and all of us were founders of the company). This is not most.
> has people worried
Has pseudonomyous sock accounts on the Internet who appear to own not much (to zero) Bitcoins; worried, at least.
> modest on-chain scaling (which needs to happen eventually anyway)
I think all the engineers at blockstream that work on Bitcoin supported segwit which roughly doubles block transaction capacity. (in a backwards compatible while improving scalability, to keep the operating costs low).
> due to your funding from AXA
Pretty perplexing, AXA isn't even to be broken out in the reports I have (we have many investors). I've never even had a conversation with anyone from AXA myself.