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I've been studying the "51% attack" fear about BTC, here's what I found

A 51% attack on Bitcoin is no longer feasible for ANY actor, even a nation-state or $100 billion corporation, because:

-The sheer scale of the hashrate is unprecedented.

-The energy, hardware, and infrastructure costs are insurmountable.

-The Bitcoin community and network’s resilience would mitigate the attack’s effects.

-The economic and reputational consequences would deter any rational actor.

-If a group of major nations outlawed it, investors would riot and/or ignore the law

What did I miss?

The threat lies in the centralization of the hashrate not in an external force joining the network.

We will have to trust them not to double spend or hold transaction from the mempool (we dont want to trust anyone).

mempool screenshot from now :

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this is not mempool, it's mined blocks on chain

I meant that transaction could be deliberately censored by being left in the mempool and not be included in their constructed blocks.