The amount of time they've spent discussing and analyzing these things has nothing to do with their contribution to the source code. There are plenty of people who have spent thousands of hours discussing the various trade offs, attacks and sources of attack surface and have not contributed to the Bitcoin Core client github repository.

>The characterization that the core devleopers focus primarily on code and traditional software engineering falls far short of the reality.

That wasn't my characterisation. I disputed your characterization of the Core contributors being the most knowledgeable on these game theory aspects of security based on their contribution to the source code.