Indeed, ad hominem is never the way
Just to recap the different views:
You say it is still in the power of (who exactly? "The network"?) to change the op return limit back. I do not see how, core had crappy arguments for their change of opinion, and ignored and gaslighted all critics. The battle for knots was uphill and still went from nothing to over 20% of the network share. There is great asymmetry there.
You said miners followed economic gravity... Except that is not what happened on Saturday. In 2017 they followed economic logic, but not this time. Signaling had zero risk, as the bip110 block is a valid non bip110 one, and if other miners defected, you were in trouble. Without a USARF signaling rejection, they had to be very sure their cronies would not defect in order to risk it as they did.
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