The good news is that more and more people understand this position, especially with Saylor's recent podcasts where he says the same thing.  Over time it becomes more and more difficult to initiate any kind of soft fork attack on bitcoin, which is excellent news.

You can have 1 new opcode every 100 years, starting 100 years from now.  Plan accordingly. 

 I say we should allow protocol upgrades every 10 years. That should give us sufficient time to research and debate. In the meantime we just fix bugs and improve performance and privacy.