So you cede that The SegWit Omnibus Changeset is antithetical to its stated goal of decentralization through small resource demands.
Huh? Its stated goal is fixing transaction malleability.
So you also cede that for the same set of transactions, the Omnibus SegWit Changeset consumes more memory and more bandwidth than without The SegWit Omnibus Changeset. Excellent. Who's next?
The stated goal of bitcoin is decentralization
Just no. Other than the fact that 'decentralization' is a nebulous concept (decentralization
of what notwithstanding), the bitcoin whitepaper does not mention decentralization even once. It does use the term 'central authority'. Twice. Referring to a single minter of the currency. (hmm. funny. that's the 'of what') A role that non-mining nodes have absolutely no effect upon.
In fact, the goal, as explained in the first sentence, is "
A purely peer-to-peer version of electronic cash would allow online payments to be sent directly from one party to another without going through a financial institution. "
at a time when many node operators (including myself) are already near the max of upload bandwidth they can contribute. Big ups to Core for maxuploadtarget and blocksonly to help us contribute the maximum possible without interfering with other bandwidth-heavy activities (gaming, streaming, torrents, video-conferencing, etc).
Cheese? Who's in the Free Shit Army
TM now?