That and the fact that if you account for the insane ticket price, air fare, hotel and entertainment it will probably cost you 10M sats to go. I will take the sats thank you very much. 

"An 'ordinals' art gallery claimed that the same pump-and-dump style NFT collections that Bitcoiners ridiculed on Ethereum were somehow good because they minted on Bitcoin."

Well that's exactly why a lot of people didn't go. The conference is ran by a shitcoining company called "Bitcoin magazine" and they have a long history of shitcoining both the magazine and the conference has a history of putting scammers on a stage.