i'm just concerned that people new to bitcoin aren't going to take it seriously with all these nft monkeys floating around...

we should be presenting a better image to the public at large if we want bitcoin to be adopted by everyday individuals. and selling them on the benefits of transferring cash digitally but if they get wind of all these monkeys increasing their transaction fees, they might be disappointed.
Or, in a world becoming increasingly more restrictive on personal freedoms and with privacy at a near all-time-low, maybe some people will see the upside of this situation. Here is a network where freedom reigns supreme.
Certain people demand that we shouldn't need Core's approval to introduce new things. Now we find ourselves in a situation where that's exactly the case and yet those same people are throwing a shitfit.
bitcoin HAD rules to protect people. it also had rules to stop core from reigning supreme. core added a hole that does nothing more than allows bloat and now they want to pretend they are not involved to avoid closing theor own bug
if you think adding bloat monkey memes(breaking bitcoin purpose) is a feature. then you dont understand bitcoins purpose
and funnily enough you love cores moderation censorship that stops random people changing the rules. you stupidly think casey filling in bloat is freedom. no because the rules are still controlled by core even though they now dont want to fix the rules they loosened.
even luke JR cant even introduce a fix into core due to the moderation censorship rejecting any attempts by anyone trying to fix the hole