well "new use cases" would be things that the filtering policemen would be trying to prevent: in addition to gridlock by vehicles, also behaviors like pedestrians jaywalking, unlicensed protestors publishing their politics and coinbase devotionals in banners that obscure traffic lights, etc.

before I get carried away, I should warn that I don't follow all the different proposed code of all projects anywhere near closely enough to make predictions of how people will circumvent various censhorship efforts using specific code that has been published recently or will be published soon; I simply am quite confident that a significant amount of people want to use Bitcoin as the central coordination layer for their various projects and are not interested in piling up arbitrary complexity of additional layers that are only timestamped into the chain, let alone launching entirely separate altcoins. these solutions compete and it takes multiple business cycles to weed out the inefficient and clumsy copes.

my interpretation of bitcoin is quite different from the typical one, and I don't think either of us really want this comment thread to become my soapbox for preaching my fundamentalist pragmatism and slightly unpopular minimaximalist panarchism or however professors would characterise the ideology if it were all written out.