I followed the first half of your comment here, about one’s wife, but you lost me on the second half.
Game theory is just that, theory. It is not set in stone. Human actors are variable in their actions/beliefs and so forth.
While the things you say about bitcoin are true in a sense, you leave out the fact that bitcoin relies on variable humans to run and maintain the code, to do the proof-of-work required to manufacture and purchase the miners, to create and build the systems that provide the energy to run the miners.
Even the protocol is code that, while the same at it’s core, has expanded vastly from the original.
I do not see @Ocean ‘s choices as censorship, as I see censorship being something imposed from up high that inflicts punishment on those who disobey.
As I see it, a mining pool choosing which transactions to include is simply one option out of many others. A mining pool is run by humans with opinions and their own beliefs, and they have as much right to create a block template that excludes transactions they deem spam, therefore potentially damaging to bitcoin, as another pool does to including these same transactions, as you do to start your own pool should you wish.