But if I found that by pure chance I was in possession of one tagged to one of my UTXOs, would I sell it to someone else in order to scoop up more BTC? Hell yes.

Same here. I actually think Ordinals is great since one could argue that a theory like Ordinals coming out was as inevitable as the ETFs if we want to have bitcoin mass adoption. Ordinals is just the bitcoin version of collectible coins. I see nothing wrong with that. People are going to be people and we should let them be people.

The only thing that I can understand "bitcoiners" having a problem with is Inscriptions which builds on top of Ordinals due to their direct impact on tx fees.^[1] But I still think it's important to distinguish Ordinals and Inscriptions: If you don't, you're no better than the ones who say Taproot (or even better: SegWit) was a mistake because "they enabled Inscriptions".

It's important to pay attention to these things even if you disagree with them, because they could have ramifications for the orange coin we all know and love.

This so much. Regarding:

In expectation of boring responses I'll no doubt get to this comment from others

I think I am going to make a post on SN how I used ord to check if I have some rare sats as some kind of reversed dog whistle: I expect a lot of stackers getting triggered by this and calling me a shitcoiner so this will help me to filter out the independent thinkers (like you, apparently) who don't respond or respond and are as curious as me not as tribal and simple-minded as the vast majority seems to be.

1. imo, not an attack and not spam though. it's just hype about expensive subjective trash. ↩