that those types of things are not what bitcoin is for. (And who decides that?)

Who invented Bitcoin, Satoshi Nakamoto, who in his white paper speaks of an 'electronic cash system'.

Facts:

• Ordinals/runes exploit a bug in the code to achieve something different from the designed electronic cash system;
• Ordinals/runes create large and effective problems in the usage of such electronic cash system;
• Even if we can be curious about the outcome of this bug, it's absolutely false that the free market necessarily brings healing innovations;