No one saw nor predicted Ordinals when Taproot was proposed and adopted. And look how controversial its been and, in fairness, it's not even "nefarious".

Drivechain seems like it opens attack vectors and surfaces for nefarious things that we may not predict nor calculate now.

I'm not against change. But preserving and securing Bitcoin's Layer 1 is... everything.

Federated sidechains do, essentially, the same thing as a Drive chain, except this way it preserves the base layer.

This is my current view and I'm not overly tied to it but zooming bitcoins in and out of the base layer seems like a large attack vector and changes the mining landscape.

Which, Satoshi intended to be more distributed and pleb based than it became. Miners have a LOT of influence and IMO it's not exactly always a positive. This is why Monero tried to make mining unprofitable and distributed. This always made some sense to me in theory.

Thoughts?