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

Somehow a déja vu: Which mining pool adds large transaction that are not expected according to mempool.space? A random sample would suggest that they are the same pools that wanted larger looks in 2017 e.g ViaBTC

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As a business you may say that customers demand that you support some altcoins, but following this demand has high opportunity costs, because it binds resources that will not be invested in Bitcoin. Supporting altcoins is high time preference. Investing in second layer Bitcoin is low time reference.