Oh, I'm quite aware. So are the miners, and so are the Bitcoin core developers, who are increasingly starting to think that Bitcoin will never be able to shift

Oh, I'm quite aware. So are the miners, and so are the Bitcoin core developers, who are increasingly starting to think that Bitcoin will never be able to shift completely over to miners' fees as a way of funding the Bitcoin network, and that the existing block reward subsidy (read: money supply inflation) might have to continue instead of being phased out the way Satoshi had envisioned.