Fuck the hardforkers.
Bitcoin needs to be compatible forever otherwise it's not a long term storage option.
If I want to set away a long term investment as a set & forget investment for like 10 years. I dont want to come back to this forum or to any bitcoin site and read the drama and FUD about new versions coming that are incompatible with the old ones.
If I want to setup some bitcoins for long term savings, then I should not need to check back every week for updates, thats the whole point.
These morons want us to be constantly updated with bitcoin as they steer it by their wishes. No, bitcoin is supposed to be nobody's property.
Imagine if you set away 20,000 BTC in a savings address, and then you fall into 10 years of coma. When you wake up, you find out that you don't own those coins anymore because some moron pushed a hardfork, and those that didnt uppgrade in time, lost every coin!!!All of your above points are very valid RealBitcoin, and you don't have to go as far as a "Coma" scenario to imagine a large number of reasons in which someone, successors or joint owners may not attempt to access his/her bitcoins for 10 years or longer, including potential inaccessibility issues that happen in the real world, including events in which any of us may attempt to leave our bitcoin's to others, and those others are either not very tech savy or resourceful and have difficulties figuring out how to get to our coins or that we even have coins (or they find the storage information at a much later date than anticipated).