Thanks a lot for sharing your perspective.

I am worried though that if this is a state sponsored attack, it can be kept up and hurt Bitcoin for a looong time. I think many don't see this risk, and assume this will go away soon. But what if it doesn't for several years. That would hurt early adoption quite a bit, pulling forward the moment at which small users are priced out. But on the other hand it speeds up innovation.

The question then remains what is worse, trying to reduce spam and possibly make further mistakes there, or accept that spam will remain on the network for an unforeseeable time (and try to innovate our way out of it).