Were bitcoin users consulted about rising fees by those that inscribe Ordinals and BRC-20 tokens? Of course not, so there's the downside of "going ahead and fucking doing it".
That's because they could do it without consensus, and they found a way to it do it through the Taproot upgrade, but you cannot just 'end' ordinals, doing so would amount to censorship because miners have to reject ordinals tx's for something like that to happen, and they would not even do it because they are making a lot of money from tx fees.
However, there's still a slight chance that even though "inscriptions" do harm on bitcoin's basic functionality, maybe most bitcoin users aren't against them.
Miners are surely in the group of those who aren't against this 'attack'. These inscriptions are clearly attacking BTC as a payment option because of the hike in tx fees it is causing, personally i don't like it and i want it to stop; but i would also not support any means of stopping it that would make the BTC network become pro censorship, like centralized institutions and their services.