Isn't anyone free to do what they want with their bitcoin?

If they have more than us, they make the rules. Just how bitcoin works... and we all let it happen like little bitches because we couldn't come together as a team and rather fight over jpegs while we spread the word of bitcoins sovereignty and freedom but then tell folks its only to be used as money...

If it's not L1 with keys, it's not bitcoin.

There is no second best.