We should have let Roger's and Bitmain's mempool spam play out back then. SegWit and Taproot were introduced to reduce the fees which had exploded thanks to the spam and thanks to Bitmain assembling e...
SegWit was fine, except for the witness discount. It was an unnecessary and ultimately pointless concession to the big blockers. Plus it did not achieve its stated objective (rationalization really) of incentivizing input destruction over output creation. Instead, it created a supply for otherwise useless block space that has been taken over by inscriptions.