one minor correction: the video says you can't tell what opcodes are used in unspent scripts.
this is true. you *can* however tell what version of scripts bitcoin is locked up to.
so theoretically you could remove support for a version of script once all bitcoin locked up to that script version had been spent.
there are currently 3 versions of scripts in bitcoin; none of them have ever been deprecated and all of them currently have funds locked up to them.
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Ah, but this would mean that you are relying on people moving coins to a new address type?
If that's the case, it's pretty clear why it's unfeasible, it took forever for people to adopt segwit, and it's taking forever more for people to start using taproot.