No protocol, let alone protocol suite, is going to be perfect. There will always be tradeoffs, and everyone has their own specific bone to pick with protocols.

I mostly shared because I think studying protocol/standards wars as super helpful for thinking about Bitcoin's layers (and how one might view "competitors").

We tend to need to speak about Bitcoin features in hypotheticals, but I think history can really ground these discussions by helping us understand there are many influences at play in protocol development - many of them non-technical.