Sad to see how things have devolved, just came here to say that may be I'm wrong because I don't understand the technicality of the situation as clearly as wiser people do. But from the school of thought I'm coming from is also from the angle of what's mentioned in the summary/moral section of the famous computer science paper "reflections on trusting trust" i.e. breaking into computers or spamming protocols is as bad as breaking into other people's houses. Peaceful people respect other people's property rights and only engage in voluntary exchanges, unless we don't want to see a world trending towards that we can bring 1,000 "technical" reasons about the need for normalizing this behavior. I choose Bitcoin because I want to see that world, not because I want to see the protcol being abused and becoming centralized.
Without any ego, I may be at best can admit that I hope i'm wrong and the technical people are right and I will watch and learn with patience. Good luck.