Fair point on the SegWit block-size context.

My main question is simpler:

Was the extra SegWit capacity meant to support monetary throughput, or to subsidise permanent arbitrary data markets?

And in your view, how have SegWit, Taproot, inscriptions, Ordinals, Runes and the related changes improved Bitcoin as money?

More specifically, how have they made the protocol more decentralised, easier for ordinary people to validate, and less vulnerable to attack?

I’m asking genuinely, since I’m not a developer and I’d like to understand the argument more clearly.