I' m surprised you are chilling Monero at the end.

ok, let's answer the following question. monero devs changed the algo when proffesional miners entered the scenez likely because they didn't want to compete on mining. are you absolutely 100% sure that your interests will coincide with whatever the monero developers do to the project next, in all possible futures? if yes, why? if not, that makes monero a hot tool you buy and hold for short period of time to break your btc trace

RandomX was introduced to reduce reliance on specialized hardware (manufactured almost solely by China) not because Monero devs... hate mining competitors? If they wanted to get more Monero than the miners wouldn't you think they could have just introduced a dev tax or a premine in the code? As for your main question: no. And that does not make XMR hot potato money any more than bitcoin would be if Core were to decide to lift the 21M cap and programmed the code to issue more BTC. As we've seen with BIP110, what the community at large decides to run is what becomes the legitimate project.

Even if it was real, what's the fucking point. Fake rocket cars was made for retards, because retards will say Elon Musk is cool because of it. Like when sent a car in front of a greenscreen and retards actually believed he sent that car to Mars

Bro, a friend of my boss bought a Bentley. Three quarters of a million dollars, to buy the equivalent of a HSV with a (literally) locked-down engine that only the manufacturer is legally permitted to work on. The grift IS the point. Elon keeps threatening to add actual value - he clearly understands showbusiness, but not luxury.

I agree, but this is still an essentially middleclass viewpoint. This is why Elon keeps having to move his biggest offerings downmarket...

Makes sense. For legacy brands, beyond a certain price point, the product being bought and sold is just human dignity.

core behaves as if they couldn't change the protocol. this may be wrong, but evidence points the other way. monero devs actually can change the protocol, and this has been demonstrated in practice. wheather you agree with their reasoning is not the point here

No. That's precisely the point. My opinion or Core's (be it Monero's or bitcoin's) is irrelevant if the majority of the network won't back it. Any dev can "change the protocol", what matters is whether the community at large runs those changes or not. BTW there were people who didn't agree with Monero's new mining algorithm and decided to keep the previous version. They failed because the majority of the Monero community (not only Monero Core) decided against their choice.

in the only precedent i know of, this is not what happened. and people running old algo and ”not making it" actually undercuts your point

No, it doesn't. They didn't "make it" because most of the XMR community back then was against ASICS and supported the new Monero version. Let's try it with more simplified logic: a) core devs b) given cryptocurrency c) majority of a given cryptocurrency's community a) can only "change" b) if c) also supports a). Historically c) has always supported a) in Monero. From there it does not follow that c) will always support a)

actually, that makes sense. thing is, I don't support that decision though

Fair enough