You can't make bitcoin better. The entrenched interests won't let you. Many have tried.

It's not defeatism. That's like saying the immigrants to america from Europe were defeatist. No, they just went elsewhere, where they were welcome to innovate and have different ideas without getting harassed.

Bitcoin is for rug pulling the banks and the government. You sit on it until they need it, then you sell it to them and let them have their new swift and fractional reserve future. They think they captured us by capturing bitcoin? They only played themselves. Monero is the real thing bitcoin is supposed to be. Get rich with bitcoin, rug pull the banks with it, and then use Monero. That's the smart play. Anybody still holding bitcoin when it becomes the new institutional settlement layer are going to learn the lesson then.

Bitcoin has no long term future, and everyone trying to change that gets silenced and mocked by people calling custodial ecash the future. So we go our own way. And our way is better, and we don't care if you can see it.