the whole "backward compatibility" softening of consensus years ago has its disadvantages
if nodes are not part of the vote nor even validating data.. then that is a bullcrap feature
the whole idea of fullnodes validating fulldata across the network is the whole point of bitcoins invention.. which has been ruined with this bypass trojan generator in 2017
That's nonsense. Full nodes have never been part of the voting process from day one which never changed either. It has always been 1 CPU 1 Vote (aka miner with actual hashrate) not 1 Node 1 Vote.
MAHF have been used many times
and yes a certain group want to make it appear that nodes have no say, no vote. but that has been since 2017
oh you might forget the berkely-leveldb drama of 2013
that was sorted out by node reorg. not by GPU power
oh and you do know that mining pools collate the data of a candidate block
oh and you do know that mining pools ises workers of ASICS just to get a strong ID
but its the nodes that the do the block rejections, orphans, and re-orgs
i know you want to pretend that mining pools are the controllers/trojan injectors, to shy away peoples eyes from wanting to look closer at the developers of code rules
but its the developers of the code rules(nodes) that is where the power lays
CORE made taproot not mining pools
its just the devs can set the rules but then not allow users to veto the rules(backward compatibility=turn user nodes into abstainers)
this is becasue most of the activations is by the "follower the leader" where economic nodes have more sway than user nodes.
after all how many users would go against a rule set of the major exchanges and merchants. meaning users cant pay value to merchants/exchanges.