I have slowly come to the same position as you, the process of OP'ing is a feature not a bug, it ensures your stack is as big as your understanding, and conviction. I think that as more value flows into bitcoin it becomes easier to be OP'd but even then they won't have the conviction the earlier generations had, and we always need that core

The masses will always be fickle, even in the so called bitcoiners today, you can quickly spot who the larpers are