Likewise man, it’s refreshing to discuss in a mature way with a “pro-core” person 😁 there are seriously unpleasant ppl everywhere!
Totally agree with you that user and fees should be the ultimate decider, our best defense are economic incentives and market demand 👍🏼
Thank you for taking the time to explain to me the technical aspects, it does really help to clear things up man. But I also suggest you not to focus all your arguments on technical alone, because at this point there are too many non-tech things which are too important IMO not to take into account:
- profit motives incentives are on the side of opening up limits
- Antoine Poisont mentioned in a video that he talked directly with Citrea
- Jameson Loop also benefits from this opening up of limits via his investment in Citrea
- all of a sudden core devs said things like “btc is a database for whatever” and “there are no spam”
- core horrible management of the whole situation, from the initial ban of ppl on GitHub, to the “trust the devs”, to the “if you are not technical you cannot have an opinion on this matter”, to the lack of self-reflection and humbleness
- constant personal attack to the guy (Luke) who made concrete actions to help btc (talking about stratum v2, massive help in helping decentralize mining), rather than taking things as they are for granted and “negotiating”
Again, I really hope this is just a horrible managed situation which some of us are not able to easily grasp due to lack of technical knowledge, but the amount of dodgy things and motives going around cannot make us sleep sound here….