Issues stack little by little. The rot is long and almost unnoticeable until it’s too late. First was the unintended consequences of SegWit and Taproot. The exploits were left to be exploited although fixes were available. The UTXO set exploded. Spam became normalised. Controversial changes were announced, the pushback was ignored. Heavy handed top-down approach is being pushed aggressively. Risks are being ignored, criticism is waved off as being not technical and ignorant. Failing to see the political creep and dismissing it as unimportant is how frogs are being boiled. Don’t be the frogs.

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It is more like a political tsunami than creep at this point. You may raise valid points, others may raise valid arguments against it. Apparently the path of truth is somewhere in the middle. If it was totally obviously black or white there wouldn't be all these discussions. Everything will work for the foreseeable future no matter what you choose. Let everybody make their decision with the thousands of arguments at hand and let's move on to the next thing to tackle. I think any problems arising from the outcome will teach people better than the endless drama and speculation of predicting the future, where people think their children will be disappointed that you could not convince people to switch to a different bitcoin node software. Just spin up more nodes with your preferred software if you think it matters so much. It's not like there's a 1 node per person limit.