As long as there are mining pools incentivized to include them, inscriptions will continue to crowd the blockspace, making it more expensive for those who want to use Bitcoin as money (you know... what it was designed for), rather than as file storage.

That said, if something cannot continue, it will not. And the reality is that in the not so distant future, most people will not be able to transact on the base chain at all. How long it will be before this takes place depends on how fast adoption of Bitcoin occurs, and there could be black swan events or coordinated attacks between now and then that would greatly slow it down.

Yet, eventually that time will come, and at some point before it occurs, inscriptions clutter will simply be priced out, if it managed to survive being more than a passing fad in the first place. I am inclined to agree with those who believe inscriptions will die out on their own.

We all know this stuff is nonsense. It is merely the latest example of how easily a fool is parted from his money. The thing is, even fools eventually catch on that they are being duped, and scammers will move on to some new way to pull the wool over their eyes.

That said, I am 100% in support of miners (or mining pools, until we have Stratum V2) having the tools to filter this garbage out of the blocks they mine. Yes, it will likely die on its own, but miners who don't want to have any part in supporting it in the meantime ought to be able to conscientiously exclude inscriptions from their block templates, even if it means they are less profitable as a result. Some things are more important than profitability.

I am sure there are all sorts of things we could start including in blocks that would make miners more profitable, but we don't, because Bitcoin has one laser-focused purpose: The separation of money and state. I wonder if many have lost that, having been blinded by the drive to maximize profits above all else.