Honestly something feels off on the purely technical side too:

- they claim they want to prevent mining decentralization, but shouldn't that be really addressed with StratumV2 and Datum instead of lifting OP_RETURN limits? The witness discount makes it cheaper anyways to publish data on chain, so I'm not sure how this point it's being addressed

- they keep bringing up compact block reconstruction, when it's obvious that filtered transactions can be cached for a while until a block is found

One positive takeaway of all this is that Bitcoiners are all but complacent.