It's an enhancement and not a threat. You need to differentiate a few things: there are protocols like XCP and MSC and there is some kind of communication with the Bitcoin protocol, for example the initial proof-of-burn (XCP) or fundraising-for-dev (MSC), the several data-storing schemes like using multisig transactions to encode transaction information or the DEX which directly interacts with the Bitcoin layer. It appears they are building the groundwork for an even more frictionless communication between Bitcoin and X.