I’m not in the “ossification by choice” camp.
Not convinced of any changes aside from the great #consensus cleanup either.
#Bitcoin does everything I need it to now but I can imagine how it can be better; just not confident I can evaluate the risk properly. Most people are in the same boat.
One path forward might be to train adversarial agents to attack a testnet with various changes made to it to see possibilities. If we can get #AI researchers to train such a model and open source their model training code, simulator, etc we might be able to increase confidence over time.