It's clearer than even, Laser Eye Maxis lost the plot.
In all my years as a fan of Open Source Technologies I've never seen a group of people sell themselves to the devil as hard as Laser Eye Maxis have.
The same group of people who said that they "will destroy the banks", "will defund the state", "will bank the unbanked" are now telling you that it doesn't matter, it won't matter and it never mattered, all that matter was always, and will always be "Number go Up" confirming what the critics like David Gerard and Amy Castor have been saying: These people only care about them becoming the new rulers.
The laser eyes don't want you to spend your Bitcoin, hindering it as money, they don't want to improve Bitcoin out of fear that it becomes too useful and their non-economic nodes need to be pruned, as it was intended from day one, and at the same time they want you to run Lightning (which is awesome when it works btw) making your lose funds if you ever fuck up a channel, they want you to accept custody as the way to scale Bitcoin because their favourite influencer told them that it's OK, why? Because they are not "the evil banks", forgetting completely that the problem is not who runs the show, but that somebody is able to run the show at all.
While they tell you how "FIAT things ruin you and make you greedy, Bitcoin fixed this" they also push for "SoV is all that matters", "nobody will be able to use Bitcoin and everyone will use Bitcoin banks", basics going full circle, from "fuck banks" to "fuck the FIAT banks, Bitcoin banks are OK", the reason? Because somehow everything that is based on Bitcoin is moral, and everything else is a shitcoin, experimentation is prohibited, the betterment of things are prohibited, making Bitcoin accessible to the people they parrot the most about is also prohibited, remember that "Bitcoin is a bottoms up movement" but you also need to do "UTXO management and only have a lot of sats in order to use them in the future".
I really thought that maxis were on par with the GNU cultists of yore, they were obnoxious, virtue signaling assholes who only by principle, not by virtue of technical prowess, a group of people who were not contempt with people using Linux, but they wanted everyone to run on crappy hardware and software just because it was FLOSS (Free/Libre Open Source Software), and if you didn't you were a FED, a estate actor, and most likely, paid by Microsoft to "destroy the GNU project" but nope, the maxis are worst, I've never seen a group as stupid as the Laser Eye Maxis.
They sold themselves to the banks because NgU is all that matters "Bitcoin was always a SoV", "MoE is a distraction", "Everyone who thinks differently is a shitcoiner".
When you kick your own ideas on the butt: you've lost the plot.
When your heroes become your enemies: you've lost the plot.
When you go from "fuck the State" to "Ver deserves what the State gives him because he is a shitcoiner": you've lost the plot.
I really think that Bitcoin will survive this, but be warned, the maxis are the worst attack on Bitcoin, and they just lost the plot, they will fall into irrelevance and any other virtue signaling group of idiots have done before them, and they will be remembered as the mark of Bitcoin's darkest era.