In the software practice, it is possible to write code that compiles and runs correctly, but that fails to fulfil, or even corrupts the business purpose that the software is being written for.
Software is not something that runs by itself in its own universe; ir runs in a context - "To Serve Mankind".
It's therefore very odd to praise people who write software that harms people. It doesn't matter how clever they are, how hard they work or how good a mentor they've been; if they're doing something horrible and wrong, they're not worthy of praise. They should be condemned.
Going forward, anyone who doesn't understand what Bitcoin is for, and who doesn't understand that bitcoin is not, "an experiment", or that "data has no meaning" or that Ordinals are evil, should be kept very far away from working on the reference client, whih in any case, should be in maintenance mode and when update is beneficial (Schnoor signatures for example) updated only when it is clearly demonstrated that performance will not be downgraded and parameters and purpose altered.
In other words, all changes and improvements must be for the sole purpose of bitcoin's reason for being. If you want to extend the capabilities of bitcoin, you should fork it and play in your own kitty litter sandbox, where others can join you if they want to.
People who do bad things are not "great", and praising them is distasteful and indicative of at worst, a bad character and at best, a painfully naïeve and credulous personality.
--beautyon
