What's worse is that this position is internally inconsistent. The same folks complaining about empty block also fiercely advocate for self-custodial lightning which reduces on-chain fee rates. How do we expand access to self-custodial bitcoin while SIMULTANEOUSLY driving up fee rates and pricing people out of self custody?

Which is more important? Incentivizing hashrate deployment or incentivizing self-custody.

You can't have your cake and eat it too.