Found this on NOSTR, and the author is new to me. Having followed the OP_RETURN/spam/legitimate use debate a bit (mostly by reading blogs and not so much by participating in social media fights) I think the article is a nice input to it.
Bottom Line
How much of Bitcoin’s success depends on community vigilance?Roughly 50% in a low Gross Consent Product world. Who sets the defaults — and how quickly the core tribe reacts — matters far more than technical purity. The remaining drivers are policy exposure (25%), incentive design (15%), and raw code quality (10%).In a low-consent environment, survival depends less on perfect code and more on the community’s reflexes under pressure. Defaults, not debates, determine the future — and those who guard sovereignty at the policy and coordination layers will outlast those who rely solely on engineering excellence.