None of the bitcoin core developers have much experience in network engineering nor do they recognise the importance of having robust netcode. It is no susprise that they see no urgency to address the vulns.
Morever, their obsession with phasing in every change via a soft fork (i.e. updated nodes must be eternally backwards compatible with older versions) puts an unreasonable constraint on protocol development and snuffs any progress that is ever so slightly controversial.
Morever, their obsession with phasing in every change via a soft fork (i.e. updated nodes must be eternally backwards compatible with older versions) puts an unreasonable constraint on protocol development and snuffs any progress that is ever so slightly controversial.