It's not even about whether or not ordinals have value.

The question to ask and answer is: should we permit use cases other than permissionless P2P digital cash to consume the scarce resource of block space on Bitcoin?

There are other value networks out there that are better suited to recording and exchanging blobs of arbitrary, non-monetary data.

The Bitcoin maximalist position of rejecting all other value networks seems to lead to the thinking that Bitcoin should absorb all other use cases.

Understand that it is ok for other value networks to exist that serve other use cases. Bitcoin is in no way threatened by them.

Bitcoin serves the most vital use case and that is the only use case that it needs to serve.

We are trying to empower financial self sovereignty for the entire world. We do not have time for stupid games.

Do not lose sight of the original goal of Bitcoin, and reject anything that deviates from that goal.

"I’ve developed a new open source P2P e-cash system called Bitcoin. It’s completely decentralized, with no central server or trusted parties, because everything is based on crypto proof instead of trust.”

— Satoshi Nakamoto