The protocol doesn't describe what Bitcoin is. It describes what's valid. And the rules say: if you pay the fee and the tx fits in a block, it's valid. Full stop. The 'sats moving around' interpretation is your read of Satoshi's intent, not a constraint in the code. Inscriptions pay more per byte than most Lightning channels. By the protocol's own incentive design, they're more Bitcoin than half the transactions you want to protect. Calling that checkers doesn't make it less valid. It just makes you the arbiter.