It's time to update the rules to remove the unproductive nuisance that is driving the fees up for all users.
I agree that ordinals are unproductive nuisance. However, I also think centralized exchanges are unproductive nuisance, and they spam the mempool with huge consolidation transactions all the time. Can we remove them?
Centralized exchanges and other entities are a natural part of the Bitcoin ecosystem, so it's not a spam.
And what about dust attacks? Why haven't we removed them yet? Surely everyone agrees they are spam?
Dust attacks are not profitable, so they don't clog the network as bad as ordinals do. In their case the fee market is doing a good job at preventing them from disrupting the core use case - sending money.
What about things like Counterparty, Stacks, or RSK? Surely they are all spam as well? And should we ban OP_RETURN outputs while we are at it?
Well if they were as popular and problematic as ordianls, they should have been treated as a bug too. Bitcoin is not Ethereum, it should be a network for money transferring, not for creating digital assets out of thin air.
"Unproductive nuisance" is subjective. I complete agree ordinals are unproductive nuisance, but we should not be dictating how other people are and are not allowed to use bitcoin.
Bitcoin's only function should be sending money, and we shouldn't dictate how people send money, but I see no reasons why we shouldn't disable the possibility of transactions that in their nature are not about transferring money but do something else, like creating and operating with tokens.