Why are we allowing this?
I would like to start a group who advocates for Bitcoin as it was intended. Is anyone interested?
We should hold David Bailey responsible. His company is basically funding ordinals and runes. And they are responsible for spamming the Bitcoin chain thereby causing a high transaction fee. Even though it seems they have a lot of money to spend, like the one where people spent hundreds of dollars per block in transaction fee. They can't continue this for long. To save the Bitcoin network our advocacy should be getting the ordinals and runes off the network.
Or we can let them have it their way and burn off their funds if they decide to continue with their bollocks. They've done this with Ordinals and it relaxed after weeks of it bugging the chain. Runes is clogging the mempool simply because it's a new thing and a lot of people are wanting to get in on the hype train. Give it some time and the hype will die down, alongside the enormous fees that people are paying now to get a transaction confirmed.