If the soundness of the network is compromised then the value prop of Bitcoin is destroyed. It is impossible to fully wargame the attack surface area of any change. Therefore changes should be made only in cases wheee there is a threat to the network. Everything else can be built on layers.

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What changed, then? You would not have enabled lightning? There is a change we want to make lightning simpler and more efficient as well as multi-party. It's not a complex change: in fact there are several ways we could do this. But I assure you that the reduced Script we have today does not allow " everything else... built on layers" :(