I wouldn't trust a centralizing force in btc in general. You mentioned something that has me confused, isn't BIP110 a soft fork and therefore a tightening of the rules instead of a change? That's an argument I hear from the knots side. What have your actions been up until now? I think you mentioned somewhere that you're running knots, correct me if I'm wrong. Cheers!

It is a tightening of the rules, but it can cause a chain split which is a hard fork. BIP110 could be the shorter chain. I run Knots. We will see what happens with BIP110. So far not enough support.

I'll look into the chain split stuff more then, I'm guessing that's the main concern. I've also read that it might break some of L2 functionality, but I'm still not sure to what extent. Thanks!

There is a thought that it is also to stop rival 2nd layers fo Lightning. But this is not so clear.