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That's what I thought too but now I'm doing the head scratching economic analysis of filling up the blocks with the most profitable template.
Technically, miners can ask whatever they want and try to extort higher fees on any arbitrary parameter, but that is the opposite of what we've seen happening since the removal of a default-configured minfee. I don't see miners doing this being likely, though as long as there is subsidy, it may be doable.
Hypothetical...
If ~ 4 years from now we get a halving, and Tx fees are still at 1-3 sats/vb
and then another 4 years later at another 1-3 sats/vb...
and another 4 years later we're still at 1-3 sats/vb with ~ 50% monkey jpegs + memecoins 'in blocks'...
Will Bitcoin fail? Is it on that path now?