My post was mostly just about how cringe watching the conference feels to me. I don't personally think this reflects on bitcoin itself, but I express this because others might.

I use bitcoin all the time. I'm paid in bitcoin. II'm interested in bitcoin, but I can't spread my time so thin as to have developer-level technical knowledge of bitcoin, since I'm full up working on nostr.

As for the principles behind fixed money supply, fully distributed, no intermediaries, taking back control of our lives... I'm 100% interested and on board. But none of that necessitates this particular coin. And I haven't heard Bitcoin maxis make a solid argument for their coin versus other coins that are also proof-of-work and fixed supply.  I've just heard it stated forcefully, devotedly, cult-like, that it is bitcoin and only bitcoin.

If a bitcoin maxi said something like "being the largest and the first mover means it has the best chance of changing society for the better, so we have to all get behind the same candidate token" I'd respect that argument.  Or they could say "it needs to be bitcoin because I have a metric shitton of it and I want to be richer" I'd  respect the honesty of that.  But generally I just hear intense professions of cultish faith, which is also cringe to me.