The youth are distracted with memecoins while BSV flies und…

Craig has turned BSV into a laughing stock, whether because of personal issues -- or on purpose. Cal isn't even doing the pump and dumps anymore.
Craig has been welcomed to law and still remains in the hilarious boomer fantasy that the state is his dad and wants a second spanking.
BSV is a pretty tough sale...

the tech has to speak for itself in the marketplace - or not. it is as it should be.

I agree. But the market only decides in a free market system. In a collectivist, centrally planned/controlled system the Party decides, not the market.
And the Party most certainly doesn't want unchained Bitcoin.