My comment on lightning was not AI generated.

Antonopoulos is just right here and nothing has changed unless you prove otherwise. Whoever overbids others in a block, gets into the block. Everyone pays by the same rules, the discount is on signature part in case of using segwit, not on output part. Additionally, op_returns are not stored in utxo set, so they actually don't inflate anything, just spend space in blocks, which is fine if they pay enough. And they do pay a lot!

Can you provide an example of a transaction where ordinals unfairly gained an advantage in inflating the UTXO set by inserting a script into OP_RETURN, please? This seems nonsensical to me.

I'll set aside your judgment on my education for the moment. If you aim for your messages to carry influence, consider working on cultivating a more polite tone first.