I totally respect that position; ignoring shitcoins is the best play for most people.

The only reason I bring this up is that shitcoins are helping to delay bitcoinization, and Ethereum produces the greatest individual delaying effect through their marketing/shilling, ERC-20 shitcoins, NFTs, and even Ethereum clones (e.g. Cardano and Solana). If Ethereum were to collapse this very moment, tons of shitcoins would vanish as well.

I'm not sure Tornado Dust qualifies as an attack, because The Ethereum Foundation has spent the last 7 years defrauding people by selling ETH and saying that Ethereum is decentralized. The centralization of Ethereum is so intense that one smart contract being sanctioned by the US could undermine the foundations Ethereum (i.e. their fraudulant claims of decentralization). Vitalik and Co aren't idiots; they knew this sort of thing was possible. They just refused to disclose this in their marketing to retail investors. The Ethereum Foundation's refusal to disclose this is fraud, which is an attack. By sending some dust to big addresses, we can expose Ethereum as the fraud it is.

I don't think this qualifies as tribalism either. Shitcoins push the separation of state and money further into the future, which delays the myriad benefits to humanity that Bitcoin promises. While shitcoiners are telling everyone to focus on tokenomics, yield, staking, and other nonsense, states are bombing people in Yemen and Ukraine.

it's not an attack on shitcoins, it is an attack on forced censorship and readily compliant "crypto" businesses who would drag us all into full compliance mode when asked to.

by making this ridiculous point we can show that applying old methods to new money is not going to work.