There are periods of time when it becomes very expensive to send small amounts of Bitcoin. It does impose a kind of 'mandatory HODL time period' for small-scale Bitcoiners. I wonder about the implications on the Bitcoin ecosystem and price.
The devs have not implemented anything to counter the blockchain spam.
It is a huge problem. So what is the solution here? Further Lightning development?
It looks like Runes and inscriptions are being supported by miners in order to push the fees up. It is no accident Runes were launched on the day of the halving.
Bitcoin is a peer-to-peer, decentralized network. Lightning is not peer-to-peer and not decentralized.
The solution is to remove ordinals(Inscriptions and Runes) and make the full 4MB blocks available to transactions which will make the network more efficient.
This is not complicated. It is common sense if you believe that Bitcoin is "electronic cash".
You said it yourself, the support is too large from parties, like miners, who profit off of huge fees. As long as the incentive is there, nobody wants to do anything against it. Which is backwards, short-term thinking which will set Bitcoin back and ruin its image.