Nobody could force me to take the covid jab, but they managed to manipulate, scare and coerce most people to take it. Anything other than Pfizer or Moderna was discouraged and or forbidden. Most critics was ridiculed and censored.

Bitcoin can be attacked in a similar way. Apple Store and Google Play Store rules can be leveraged against us. Only apps using CTV and x conditions will be allowed. A coordinated media campaign can be leveraged against us. Search engines can hide alternatives, and social media can flag and remove dissenting voices.

CTV will make these kind of attacks easier to scale, no multisig necessary.

The simple fact that bitcoin is hard to understand from a technical stand point, and that the legacy system seem to be singing on its last verse may give us enough time to avert attacks like this. Hopefully we will onboard enough people with the right adversarial mind set and understanding of free open source software to make attacks like these totally unfeasible.

But i still have a hard time accepting a change to bitcoin core consensus that make its security worse. BTW i also had a hard time accepting taproot.