Bitcoin's health has never depended on a single number. It depends on a matrix of parameters — users, miners, sequencing nodes, verification nodes, exchanges, software providers — all working together across distinct layers. Understanding the matrix explains why BIP-110 failed and why the system is working as designed.
There is a premise running through the BIP-110 debate that rarely gets examined directly: the idea that Bitcoin should be virtuous — that the protocol itself should resist use cases that some participants find objectionable.
Even if you draw a hard line between monetary and non-monetary uses of Bitcoin, does it follow that non-monetary uses should be forbidden? Gold has never been just coin, and that diversity of demand is precisely what makes it valuable.
BIP-110 treats the distinction between monetary and non-monetary data as self-evident. But the history of money tells a different story: data has always been part of money, and Bitcoin is the first system where that privilege extends to users.