It’s not that I think SegWit & Taproot were categorically bad for #Bitcoin.

It’s that I think:

1) They weren’t absolutely necessary.

2) The 2nd order economic effects of witness discount/block size recalibration weren’t fully considered.

3) SegWit emerged from contention.

4) It’s not unreasonable to say that building user understanding of Sound Money should have been the #Bitcoin  community’s primary objective back in 2017 and is still our primary objective today

Building understanding in human mental nodes 1st is the optimal order of operations.