You're asking them to do something that isn't trasmitted on the normal bitcoin infrastructure. To this point the blockchain has been agnostic, so this is abnormal. How is that statement bitcoin-hostile?
Bitcoin doesn't have Counterparty support. I'm asking them to use a temporary side-channel
in addition to normal relaying-to-random-nodes until the Bitcoin network has upgraded to support Counterparty.
This is quite the opposite of antagonistic and seems almost optimistic.
Luke some times your comments are hard to follow.
You don't want the bitcoin protocol to change to allow counterparty to operate in a more beneficial way, and then you say that it will change in the future. It will upgrade to allow that support in the future.
So... you will do it, just not until it is convenient for you and the other bitcoin developers?