I’m not a protocol dev, but from everything I’ve read and learned over the years, this is how decentralized networks tend to work — the tolerant minority sets the boundaries, especially when preferential peering is involved. I trust Adam’s framing here not just because of who he is, but because the logic of network propagation backs it up.

Also go tell him that in his face..sure he will answer you:

https://x.com/adam3us/status/1967463326319104053?s=46&t=rhDdlyEdNBvuYBxK11ozzw