Makes sense

I don't agree, otherwise mandatory KYC is simply voluntarism as well on the part of the existing control structure with respect to Bitcoin. Does voluntarism mean no values?

I fully agree. Do we know what the original justification for the discount was though? Was it a sort of "gift" to the big blockers to help them calm down?

Malleability has nothing to do with the discount. The discount can be removed now and the lightning network wouldn't even notice.

Why is the sentiment apparently so bad in the Bitcoin ecosystem?

Projects like liquid and cashu cannot really be stopped though, why consider them an attack, their utility (or disutility) notwithstanding?

How do you know it will fail activation, because of no miner support?

Does it actually have an effect on dreams? Interesting

This is surely a coincidence

What if it fails though? Being terrified doesn't provide a way out unfortunately

This is amazing, won't be missing the next one!

I'm coming to very similar conclusions by reading Wendell Berry's essays, I highly recommend the collection found in "The World-Ending Fire"