I didn't say I am optimistic about scaling Bitcoin, I said I was optimistic about smarter ways to use Bitcoin to avoid high fees, and named 3 alternative ways of using Bitcoin. I am using 2 of them and tried quickly 2 other ways. Lightning is not broken, it will work for some use cases, Liquid for some others, Fedimint for others, etc. I didn't say I am optimistic about scaling Bitcoin because Bitcoin won't scale by design. That being said I would have been in favor of fixing the code allowing BRC-20 to have happened, although now it may indeed be too late since miners are happy to get higher fees anyway.