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But, eventually, it's all worth it

or is it?

Nope, it's not worth it:
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That said, it's simply not acceptable for us (to echo your words) to put lipstick on a pig and ship a GUI that is pleasant enough, but takes 4 days to sync from scratch, requires 6+gb of RAM, sucks a ton of bandwidth, and is accepted nearly nowhere.
We will deliver a proverbial work of art, but it requires building out parts of the foundation that we had previously viewed as less of a priority (until the 202612 attack). Oh, and we're doing it on like no money, so there's that.
Broken piggy bank. Trolls, go and fix your broken piggy bank.
I'm seriously impressed with the level of dedication to the Monero troll cause.
It must be hell trying to troll with a coin that just hogs and hogs computer memory.
I guess using Monero down the local shops would need to involve buying a wheelbarrow to carry your desktop pc around. But hey, because Monero.