The arguments against ossification are almost entirely around new stuff that devs want to build. 

If that's the priority, why don't you build it on Liquid or Lightning or some other place that's not the base layer? Liquid in particular has a very similar system as L1 and on testnet, they have Simplicity enabled, which should get you pretty much any primitive you want that's not Turing complete. If your idea is so great, why don't you show the benefits of your idea by building elsewhere? Your argument for why you want a soft fork would be a lot better received if you showed evidence that the thing you want to build actually has a robust market.

If the reason why you won't build on another layer is that it's too cumbersome or difficult, then I have zero sympathy for your plight.  

 So you want developers to have to choose between a federated L1 or a highly interactive L2 that has been shown to mostly achieve adoption via trusted third parties.

Coolcoolcool. 

 The devil you know is better than the one you don’t

Anyone that wants sovereignty today can easily run Alby Hub and have a great UI/UX. The other 99% of people are totally fine and prefer interacting with third parties like strike, wos, and soon their banks. 

Risking unintended consequences because maybe one day lots of people will suddenly care about sovereignty makes no sense 

 Federated layer 1 could be a proving ground though. 

 Devs are dangerous to stuff that already works. Almost every (maybe every) program or website that I initially liked has been turned into unusable junk by all the additional features they've added over time. 

As they say in engineering (real engineering): "don't fix what ain't broken." 

 yeah, gnome 4 is a great example of this 

 Exactly, feature creep has ruined so many great pieces of software. Developers like to develop. It's not in their nature to say 'the is feature complete, let's not break it'. I say this as a developer. 

 Something I've been curious about - do devs have to report to the typical moronic middle managers that have inserted themselves into seemingly every industry? Cuz I could totally understand if managers are orchestrating the creeping enshitification of software.