First of all, I'm not trying to "enforce" anything. You have no clue what will happen in terms of spam after v30 is released, just like none of the supposed geniuses had any clue that taproot or even segwit, which Luke wrote, would eventually open the doors to inscriptions and UTXO bloat.

This might be surprising to you, but I actually don't give much of a fuck about this technical argument at all. The fact is all the supposed metrics that core argues for: UTXO bloat, Mining pool centralization, etc- have all negatively adjusted trajectory over the past few years under the current B-core dev team's watch.

So beyond the technical, I think the core team is failing and most of them should resign. They have terrible communication skills and they do not even appear to be principled bitcoiners at heart. Asking ridiculous questions like "what is spam?" or "is bitcoin money or data?" should disqualify you from contributions immediately.

Many non-technical users like me had no idea how bad it appeared to be before this op_return fiasco. I wish we woke up to this sooner, perhaps before the taproot upgrade, but we are where we are.

What is the way forward?

I think we should have multiple competing implementations that will continue debates like this forever and magnify every single spec of code that is changing in every single release on every single client. "The most viewed piece of software in the world" has a new meaning now. And the LLM tools to empower plebs like me are just in time.

The privilege of the "reference implementation" is over. Nothing will be taken for granted, and you can forget every single "upgrade" to consensus except for absolutely essential bug fixes.

Congratulations, you have successfully achieved de facto ossification.