I agree with your overall point, but I have just one small point of contention on this: "Ordinals / BRC-20 are good because they drive up miner revenue. Whether or not this is true, it does not mean that misleading retail is OK."

Agreed that "it doesn't mean misleading retail is ok" however, it absolutely was good for miner revenue. During the Ordinals spike, there were at least two blocks that I witnessed in which the mining fees matched and/or exceeded the block reward.

Again, I agree with your overall point so please don't misconstrue my post here.