They can pay high fees, just not for an extended ammount of time, because the payment would be higher than the ROI over time, in fact inscriptions died of a lot since their peak. what we can't say is ...
I think we need some way more drastic, like starting at block 1m, blocks are only 1mb again. That's a fork I could get behind. The damage is already done with segwit and taproot as you point out. I just don't see any true fix possible and forking is pretty serious for something we know in advance won't solve it
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