hahahaha...   After I posted, I did notice that you had responded to that same jbreher post, and pretty much said all the things that I said - except for the "down the road" / "mandatory" part.  Hahahahahaha 

It seems that those bitcoin naysayers and alt coin pumpers can fuck themselves.... We can already write them off as whining about almost everything and anything, which trivializes any possible good point that they might make somewhere in the mix of their ongoing irrelevant and immaterial whinings.

Further, I doubt that I am saying anything new - because I am pretty sure that I had already read or heard several representations of ideas that pretty much say the same thing as what I was attempting to say, but using different words.... so in that regard, it should be quite obvious that the more and more good concepts and practices get widely adopted in bitcoin on the main chain or on side chains or second or third layers, then they could likely end up getting absorbed into the main bitcoin infrastructure in one way or another....   Actually, given the seeming ongoing softfork preferences of core (and seemingly the vast majority of the bitcoin community), it seems that options are largely going to be available - which causes more empowerment in choosing when, how and the extent to which you want to use any particular aspect of bitcoin - even though bitcoin naysayers, attackers and altcoin pumpers tend to misrepresent (on an ongoing basis) and act as if something that is some minor happening or possibility is the essence of bitcoin -  even if it is only used by a small percentage of the bitcoin community or is optional, as we already discussed.