This argument is so old that it's almost endearing to see people arguing about it time and time again. Code isn't law, and it never was. Consensus is. This is t

This argument is so old that it's almost endearing to see people arguing about it time and time again. Code isn't law, and it never was. Consensus is. This is true for all blockchain-based cryptos. Miners are free not to upgrade every time a new protocol version is proposed. Why do they upgrade then? If consensus was established around the older set of rules, that would be it. But instead there's consensus around the newer rules. And that's simply because miners individually decide that the newer rules are better, for whatever reason.