A change to the consensus rules of bitcoin. The rules that say whether a transaction is valid and can be added to a block. Or was that not your question? Any sarcasm here went straight over my head 🚸

Primary consensus rules (in plain English) - Bitcoin Controlled Supply Rule - Total supply of Bitcoins is controlled to a fixed number of 20,999,999.9769 Bitcoin. - Bitcoin Mining Reward Rule - How many Bitcoins are rewarded to the miner who creates a new Bitcoin block from the coinbase. Bitcoin Proof of Work Rule - The block hash must meet the cryptographic difficulty requirement. - Each Bitcoin transaction input must have the correct signature of its address owner. -Each Bitcoin transaction input can only be used once in the Bitcoin block. - Each Bitcoin transaction must be in the correct data format. - Each Bitcoin block must be in the correct data format. - Each Bitcoin block must contain the hash of the previous block in the blockchain. I am being pedantic but, my point was that nothing was "changed" persay. BIP 110 added rules and did not change the previous consensus rules. It would be fair to say "Only one side is pushing stricter rules for consensus"

Adding a rule is changing the rule set, by most people's meaning of the words. But there is a slight difference. I shall endeavor to be clearer in the future. But my point stands, one side is trying to rush through a change in the consensus rule set by adding new rules. My main problem is the rush. That reeks of scammers trying to make people make mistakes by acting emotionally. Also the "temporary" part is just not sound money.

I completely agree about the Flag Day activation, completely unnecessary. If people want the software, then they can run the software. No need to put a timeline on it. Spam is a slow death that builds up. But I don't see temporary as a negative. It seems like a compromise in an attempt to find a better solution that is less restrictive for innovative usecases.