I think there’s a flaw in your argument. If the transaction fee goes up, more miners enter the picture, pushing the transaction fee back down while inherently increasing decentralization. It’s a self balancing ecosystem. That’s the genius.
#Bitcoin needs to change for its ethos to scale
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https://bitcoinmagazine.com/culture/bitcoin-cannot-reach-the-world-if-it-doesnt-change
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That only applies assuming the usage never changes.
The genius is in the permissionless nature - which also means you can't stop people from creating new ideas like ordinals/brcs/whatever that materially affect everyone using the chain.
There's a greater than zero chance that eventually we live in a world where fees are permanently high - which could also wreak havoc on the lightning network.