that is true, but not what's being discussed here (although a few don't seem to be able to see that). all can be true simultaneously: cool tech, not decentralized, not a premine, bitcoin onchain for "human rights" = lol. in fact, if you ask me, they are indeed all true simultaneously. but they needn't have been. the focus here is that calling a dev tax a premine is incorrect, even if the end result turns out to be more or less the same (same in the sense insiders get a part of the supply, not the same in that the insider's supply comes at once (premine) or trickles slowly (dev tax).