I do get the appeasement vibe too, because of the aggressive talk, and the "i talked to physics phds, did you?" trump card shows how shallow the argument is. Where's the writeup from all those physics PhDs? What's next? "battle me on spaces or be a loser forever"?

It's in my observation not so much vs bitcoiners but vs bitcoin protocol devs though. This is of course all the rage because then one can appeal against "Bitcoin Core" once more, which in turn is the favorite pastime for everyone with an agenda. Next, we will get an argument where a dev gets singled out and made publicly responsible for killing a million babies by not agreeing with the urgency of quantum implementations.

I also think that if you read the notes from the Frankfurt core dev meetup then you can easily distill how devs look at the threat, and it doesn't take a rocket scientist to see that committing to something like Sphincs+ has immense consequences for tx throughput.

So perhaps all these Physics PhDs that have opinions about bitcoin can be a pal and help figuring out how to do signature compression, instead of us having to take the word of a shitcoiner vc bro only spreading fear, not solutions.