One of the main issues seems to be that for some reason a lot of people think microcomputers are the appropriate devices to run a Bitcoin node. They’ve always taken weeks to sync and were barely powerful enough. After a blocksize increase and always full blocks, it’s no wonder that they feel underpowered.

Murch

i've been using bitcoin all this time perfectly fine.

This. For a couple years they've said spam's effects will get worse and it's only gotten better in my experience. They are bothered that people don't use the chain the way that they would and want you to believe that bitcoin is somehow turning into ethereum, with some hand-wavy explanation. The chain has a capped growth rate that's much slower than the affordability/availability of mass storage. One is linear, the other is curved upward. Then they go with their scary illegal/immoral content FUD, as if it's not already on chain and preventing more of that will magically flip fiat brains and lead to a strategic bitcoin reserve and hyperbitcoinization.

bitcoin

storing a 66kB continguous image in a Bitcoin tx without OP-RETURN or Taproot

Scoresby

>  i've been using bitcoin all this time perfectly fine.

This. For a couple years they've said spam's effects will get worse and it's only gotten better in my experience. They are bothered that people don't use the chain the way that they would and want you to believe that bitcoin is somehow turning into ethereum, with some hand-wavy explanation. The chain has a capped growth rate that's much slower than the affordability/availability of mass storage. One is linear, the other is curved upward. Then they go with their scary illegal/immoral content FUD, as if it's not already on chain and preventing more of that will magically flip fiat brains and lead to a strategic bitcoin reserve and hyperbitcoinization.