I'm not seeing the civil war here - those who wish to implement knots rules can, those who wish to support ordinals can. They won't cause a crash in the Blockchain, just some nodes will fill with data and become unmanageable eventually and some will keep the excess data out and remain more manageable. What excess data miners choose to include, or not, in a block, is up to them.

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1. Wizards campaign that maxis are censoring them. 2. Luke breaks with 10yrold standard protocol to "kick them out"; breaks whirlpool. 3. Whirlpool is about to release a Knots-proof workaround. 4. Prediction: wizards will follow suite. Thus begins a cat and mouse game of incrementally dismantling critical #Bitcoin features. It's right there.
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buffalo 2 years ago
Configurable settings, who designs a product on top of something so fragile?
I was going to mention that there's long been several interoperable implementations of Bitcoin, Core only being one.