Laws will never change what Bitcoin truly is.
This is nothing more than semantic. Some people often act as if Saylor, Blackrock and others are 'changing' Bitcoin.
Nothing is changed.
Discussion
Exactly
While your first statement may be true, it‘s also correct that people with money & influence can steer the direction of development. And in this regard there have been a couple of surprising remarks by the man who once wrote the foreword to The Bitcoin Standard!
I agree with you that nothing has technically changed yet and laws don't really matter because the only laws Bitcoin follows is its own.
But public perception still kind of matters. Saylor is a very prominent talking head and There are a large portion of people who agree with a lot of what he has to say.
I kind of hate that lately I've been thinking that public image kind of matters, but with a large portion of the world's population not necessarily aware of Bitcoin or having a negative view on Bitcoin. And to have a small mess of prominent talking heads being like, "oh, Bitcoin isn't money. It's just a savings asset that we can safely regulate"...is troublesome and counter productive.