The leading voices in Bitcoin are changing fast like at the Tour de France when speed is high and everyone in the main field is only leading at the front for less than a minute. That is healthy and quite the opposite to politics where people are sticking to their posts for a lifetime and can not retire even if they are already mentally impaired.

Dead code is a code smell and should be removed. That also applies to Bitcoin scripts. From a development point of view removing ordinals would make sense. A lot of care is taken to make block usage as efficient as possible, but removing dead code is not a priority? //cc @Bitcoin Mechanic