I'm not FUDing either. The reference node being based on trust is not a little flaw, it's going against everything we should stand for. I consider this a fact.
The reference node will go in time. It's on the to do list.
But you are concern trolling.
It's like me going to your thread and saying: so your wallet takes years to synch so if you don't want to use the unsynchable nerdcore wallet you have to trust the web wallet....
Seems like a lot of websites one has to trust to actually just use monero..