From the perspective of counterparty and the overall bitcoin community,
- The criticism is not against counterparty, but just One Flaw in the system
- There was zero consultation on the design with the wider community before the "on" switch was flipped
- This flaw --network-critical database used for raw data storage-- was well known before Counterparty began life. You could have avoided this problem with communication.
- Existing designs are known to be less abusive to the network, and do not store data in that key database
It is perfectly possible to run counterparty without this flaw.
You are using the protocol as a bargaining tool, because you don't like what a project did. Do you see the problem with that?
All you are doing is making a decision for miners.