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 You made no such case. You only made unsubstantiated claims that it was the same as P2SH. 

I just pointed out that it was a false analogy to see if you could back it up. And you didn’t. 

It seems you’re just parroting talking points given to you from other people. Just like that meme where the NPCs all download their latest update. Did you sit in on a talk once or twice and conclude you now know everything there is to know?

I often find that folks who see the world in superficial simplicity often have never built anything of value or complexity. Those who have usually realize that many of their preconceived assumptions were wrong. 

By the way, what they didn’t discuss in that talk you attended:

Op_ctv can be used to expand time-based trading opportunities, options, futures, DLCs. 

https://www.coindesk.com/layer2/2022/05/20/bip-119-unpacking-ctv-and-how-it-would-change-bitcoin/

https://bitcoinops.org/en/newsletters/2022/02/02/

Trading and marketplaces create opportunities for people to front-run transactions. 

https://www.coinbase.com/en-it/learn/advanced-trading/what-are-frontrunners-and-mev-when-it-comes-to-crypto-trading

This creates MEV or MEVil, as some people term it. MEVil motivates miner centralization. 

https://bluematt.bitcoin.ninja/2024/04/16/stop-calling-it-mev/

Here’s a primer on MEV in case you forgot!

https://bitcoinmagazine.com/technical/mev-monster-bitcoin

Anyway my point is that it’s not clear that it’s necessary and we definitely don’t know that it’s safe. I can see that there is a potential risk. I just don’t know the severity of the risk and neither do you.