I make it a point to hold multiple opinions of the future in my head, so... yes and no. On the one hand, yeah there are some incentives. On the other hand, as they say, the white paper is as good as the paper it's printed on.

If we get swarmed by NGU-only, or NFT-only, or MerchantAdoption-only brains, then I suspect the bitty is destined for the historical bin of squandered opportunity.

And then but so, what needs to happen for the bitty to thrive? Perhaps, a multitude of voices need to adopt it. Right now, the more densely connected (informationally) community of users is concerned with blockspace and what appears to be a well thought-out op.

e.g. WHY THE FUCK IS BITCOIN'S CENTRAL DEVELOPER HUB HOSTED ON GITHUB??

this seems like a major issue. and until we get something like NostrGit I think we're going to have centralization problems due to way that the tools we're using are using us.

So, yah... I think the centrality of the development efforts is a major issue for bitcoin.

Lkewise, we can consider capable software engineers as a priest class for modern techno-times. and what can we do about that? well, I guess that gets at why I posted in ~builders... because we need more of the builder types... more priests who can spread the gospel. And, behold, in my vision, it's supposed to be the good-minded priests who prevail... those informed by the great living philosopher priest, his sudo-holiness Richard Stallman.

e.g. WE NEED MORE EYES ON THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE CATHEDRAL

For my part, I'm some variant of one-foot-in-one-foot-out of the FOSS future that I envision. I'm capable or reading and writing in code, and was using Linux before I learned to code, but my brain's grasp of the fundamentals is still growing... and somehow I fell off the desktop linux boat a couple of years ago when I bought an M2 Mac for local LLM reasons.

it's admittedly getting better on my end.

and for the rest of you, I can recommend Chaincode's BOSS program. I learned SO SO much about how the system I care so much about is working through that program. (ps. hire me for projects or teams! (I've got 10+ years of software engineering experience at big and small companies and run my own consultancy now)).