But “those who haven’t thought it through don’t care” — that’s a Hasty Generalization. Most people haven’t heard a clean, honest explanation yet. The mempool fees of 2023 priced out ordinary users and they noticed. They just don’t have a name for what happened to them.
Satoshi didn’t build peer-to-peer electronic cash so that jpegs of rocks could price out human beings from the base layer.
The window is August 2026. Nodes are signaling. The signal is growing without institutional backing — organically, exactly as UASF is supposed to work. Being collegial is good. Being silent is surrender.