You’re probably right. Nobody said this was gonna look good to the outside world.

In truth - the Bitcoiners that fit themselves to a definition will be cannon fodder for those who don’t because they will be easily modeled.

Failing purity tests can be fatal if you do it wrong (eg dump your savings into ETH just to be a nonconformist). There’s likely a threshold one uses to make sure they don’t get rekt and constant self-vigilance so you don’t believe the lie and make being a contrarian’s contrarian an identity - lest you become another version of a conformist.