A and B I'm not going to argue with. C is more nuanced than that. The size of the utxo set is bloated by the inscriptions, it's affecting the IBD and making it more resource consuming for miners (which makes it even harder for small miners to compete with the big ones – another centralising force). The inscription spam could be stopped two years ago (there was a PR for that), but it wasn't. And the inscriptions are still being mined, like a 4 MB block by MARA recently. We shouldn't be forced to compete for the blockspace with spammers. Mining is a small margin business and the big miners will try to convince everyone that the blocks must be full and they are entitled to fill the blockchain with toxic waste. I don't agree with that. I don't want people to throw garbage to the river even when I'm not using the river at the given moment. And this river flows next to my door (my node). This is a tool to break the fiat system. The system will be fighting against it. We need bitcoin to be resilient and simple. It was designed to do one thing and in order to win with fiat, it has to be the best at it – being money. It won't be possible, when it will be optimised to do some other things (like eth and others). To be the best at something you need to optimise only for this very thing.

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These are some valid points. In the meantime I'm following the fake pubkeys discussion and it becomes apparent to me, that it's above my pay grade. I did get caught up in tribalism early in the discussion and I'm slowly untangling from it. I doubt though, that all the people involved in this discussion are against spam/etherisation. Probably some are just trolling, but some have evident conflicts of interest. This remains my concern, but I don't know what to do with it. The proposals and the approach of the Knots camp are not always ideal, but I see genuine concerns and sincere attempts to defend bitcoin. That's why I reacted to your initial post. They iterate their proposals, work on them, gather feedback and seek agreement. To me this seems fair. I'm going to follow the discussion still, but I'll try to refrain from statements about issues I don't fully understand.