I feel you there. It does sound cool to build on Bitcoin and make CTV etc, but the possible attack vectors getting opened up are not worth it, especially at the moment. There's plenty of places for these shitcoiners to go build, I wish they would go there.

The Core Devs are smart, so I am still not sure if this is their real aim to get more competition with them/test how Noderunners react. The only thing arguing against that is some of their incentives and alignment with shitcoiners/wall street. Time will tell.