It's irrelevant. Miners can pay themselves a million Bitcoins with an invalid block today if they want. The reason they don't is the same as the reason they'd mine BIP-110 valid blocks. All that matters is how widely enforced the rules are aka decentralization.

I don't think so, it would be directionally correct to somehow eliminate the witness discount (at least for non-monetary uses) but it's a completely different market.

A vintage car used as a collector's item does not naturally fall to the price of a used Prius as they are used different purposes.

1. I'm not against L2s
2. The assertion that idiots run out of money is baseless

Think

Do you believe casinos will eventually cease to exist also?

It is jot a coincidence that this "generic database" contained primarily financial activity until 2023.

That was the result of responsible decision making and careful design.

That has all been abandoned for the purposes of bringing crypto scams to Bitcoin, rationalized with hollow ideological claims that undermine sincere engineering efforts to reduce non-monetary usage of Bitcoin.

"Bitcoin is permissionless!"
"That is not spam, they're valid transactions!"

...as though those things are meant to mean we cannot be permitted to acknowledge and fix issues preventing the network from functioning correctly.

Best? No. Inevitable if BIP-110 and efforts like it fail? Yes.

And yet I've heard it from many respected minds in the space. @Lyn Alden

I didn't say it's not permissionless dummy.

Witness discount abuse