Fee markets are driven my human preference. A majority who adopts rules restricting the use of their property, and limits the definition of what money they agree to trade in, is not a government. Prices are effected by these agreed-upon rules. It is true anarchist, self-sovereign, market-driven rules that flow out of this collaborative network of nodes who represent the choice of those who transact in their concensus-money. It is not "Democrat" or "Republican" it is "state" or "non-state". I am not saying BIP110 is either state or non-state, but the infiltration by the owner-class and state covert operations into the core team does represent the will of the state, and their anti-concensus behavior reflects an exercise of power under the cover of darkness, against the will of those who depend on them to reflect their collective will. BIP110 is merely an attempt to mitigate the damage done by the state.
While I understand your perspective, it is still hinted by elements of force. The root problem is the fee market being manipulated by discounting certain bytes (via weight unit measurement) at one-fourth the cost as other bytes when they are both physically on people's nodes.
Now you can say that people are complicit by running the code, but I would also say then you should call everyone a statist because they're complicit with the state's demands as well.
