You're viewing a prime example of how engineering discussions work.
Someone makes a proposal, which then gets peer reviewed in an attempt to poke holes in it.
Discussion
So your dismissive additude of others opinions is just a byproduct of your personality and not a reaction to the merit of the argument.
It requires a fair amount of ignorance to think functionality can be removed from Bitcoin without consequence. You wouldn't see such a suggestion coming from a protocol developer.
The immediate increase in attack surface for no meaningful reason is very, very reckless.
