"but 110 specifically leaves carve-outs for abuse such that it has all the hallmarks of controlled opposition... Luke supporting Covenants, acquiescence to Taproot at large.. etc." I'm not sure what you mean by that, to be honest. Covenants aren't inherently bad in my view.
To tackle your direct question: I believe Bitcoin has all the bones it needs. The base layer clearly can't scale to 8 billion+ people. Layer 2s will be necessary. My view is optimizing the base chain with as efficient an instruction set as possible, and optimizing transaction sizes to be as small as possible are the way to improve scalability and increase the ability for people to take self-custody on the base chain. Again, I don't mind covenants for that purpose.
I'm not pro-ossification. Eventually something will break, or something external will need to be reacted to.
Ultimately, I'm a pragmatist. A more "maximalist" position (like reduced block size, The Cat, remove Segwit discount) would just get laughed out of the room. I think 110 barely has enough chance of succeeding as it is. If it were any harsher, we'd have a URSF on our hands. We might have a URSF next time, no matter what.
"but 110 specifically leaves carve-outs for abuse such that it has all the hallmarks of controlled opposition... Luke supporting Covenants, acquiescence to Taproot at large.. etc." I'm not sure what you mean by that, to be honest. Covenants aren't inherently bad in my view.
To tackle your direct question: I believe Bitcoin has all the bones it needs. The base layer clearly can't scale to 8 billion+ people. Layer 2s will be necessary. My view is optimizing the base chain with as efficient an instruction set as possible, and optimizing transaction sizes to be as small as possible are the way to improve scalability and increase the ability for people to take self-custody on the base chain. Again, I don't mind covenants for that purpose.
I'm not pro-ossification. Eventually something will break, or something external will need to be reacted to.
Ultimately, I'm a pragmatist. A more "maximalist" position (like reduced block size, The Cat, remove Segwit discount) would just get laughed out of the room. I think 110 barely has enough chance of succeeding as it is. If it were any harsher, we'd have a URSF on our hands. We might have a URSF next time, no matter what.