I understood their arguments and happen to agree with them mostly. Not sure who is included in the community you are referring to. Regardless, I am pleased people discovered more implementations of bitcoin clients exist and can then question why Core before hitting install.

I completely agree with you here. Most don’t understand the technical implications or motivations one way or the other and are wondering if the network and their money is in danger. My simple heuristic is to stay on the side that has been safe so far until further notice.

Waiting for higher fees means incentivising bad - but financially motivated - miner behaviour for longer too. So I guess core still has a point in doing it now.

My 2 sats. Core has been successful keeping the protocol safe so far. Unless one believes they have been compromised then there’s nothing to worry about from them. As far as I can tell, their technical arguments are sound. The only thing I would do differently maybe is to remove the op_return limit once fees are consistently higher to deter so called spam.

This can be done today! It might already be on there and you would have no way to know.

Good things take time 😅