As someone who is currently a beginner node runner, and trying my hand at hobby mining (just bitaxes at home for now), it seemed like this debate was important to keep tabs on and follow closely. That's probably still true, but...
As someone who started out just as a user of bitcoin who relies on actual miners for including my transactions in blocks, and on dedicated node runners who validate transactions, it occurred to me to ask, "How much does this affect regular, pedestrian users of bitcoin?"
Like, if you're not mining, and if you're not running a node, is your use of a bitcoin wallet and bitcoin-sats as a store of value and a medium of exchange really affected in any way by this debate and these proposed changes? As long as there isn't a hard fork, the answer seems to be no, no difference for simple users.
Please correct me if that's wrong, but isn't this all a non-issue for such pedestrian users of bitcoin? If it comes to a hard fork, perhaps that's a different story, but who knows? Not me
#asknostr