Maybe I'm just a non-technical dumb guy with too many opinions, but I honestly see no difference whatsoever between the "Ordinals Attack" and the Lightning Network Attack on Bitcoin.
Ordinals don't grant you the permission to use a nearly instant payment network with minimum transaction cost.
They are literally the same thing.
They are literally the opposite. Ordinals require abruptly large sized transactions, while lightning makes the best transaction compression to this date.
My hope is that this "attack" shows how dumb the layer 2 implementation currently is and maybe get developers to rethink a new situation that doesn't burden actual on chain users.
If this second layer solution didn't exist, I, as an average user, would have paid much more in on-chain fees in the last months.
On the contrary , ordinals increase the security of the network by increasing the income of miners so the security overall , while LN "steal" fees from miners .
And complete indolence does harm the network, and "steals" from the miners, because it sets limit on how usable Bitcoin is as currency. Without second layer, it's quite unusable.