BIP-110 is not a surgical fix. It creates second-order consequences for script expressiveness, wallet assumptions, transaction safety, and contentious activation handling.
Future Functionality Can Get Hit
Tools used by inscription workflows often overlap with tools needed by future smart-contract and layer-2 designs. Restricting them under current political pressure may narrow Bitcoin's design space more than supporters admit.
User Funds Are Part of the Risk Surface
If a proposal changes standard behavior in ways that interact badly with pre-signed transactions, timelocks, edge-case wallets or old assumptions, users bear the cost. That is why critics talk about confiscation risk and spendability risk.
Chain-Split Risk Is Operational
A contentious activation can split miners, exchanges, wallets and liquidity. That creates confusion around deposits, confirmations and ticker legitimacy. The sorting process is itself part of the danger.
Replay and Scam Risk Follow Splits
If a split happens without replay protection, the same transaction can behave badly across both chains. That creates room for fake support, rushed advice, exchange mistakes and avoidable losses for ordinary users.