I don't really understand the freakout over ordinals. The way I see it, it's a way to pad out any unused space in blocks with more "transactions"

Considering we're also still in a bear market and a lot of miners are hurting, the increased fees helps decentralization too. Also, minting inscriptions is way too inefficient above a certain feerate. Most ordinals seem to hover around the 1-4 sat/vB mark, so a higher feerate would reduce ordinals usage anyways