It solved an immediate problem for them
It got "them" to Citrea. This is why Jameson Lopp attacked v3 too. (Lopp is a
rathole investor in Citrea)
Surely this is apparent to you at this point as well?
I can't figure out what you're saying here.
I've been hooking up people with Testnet publicly with books since 2022, and suddenly it's a problem via a Lopp post? Then all this shit starts rolling.

lol
Huh? You just acknowledged up thread that asking people to not trade testnet coins for value goes all the way back to Satoshi. It's not new, nor is resetting the chain used in the node software for testnet when people do a new thing-- though it went a long time without being needed.