'Code is law' must be the new 'the free market is always right'. The starting assumption is that any interaction that happens is a priori 'as designed' merely because it happened and we just reason back from there to justify any insanity.

"Besides high fees, the transaction load resulted in a bottleneck that resulted in failed transactions that people still had to pay fees for—now in the thousands of dollars for nothing in return, not even an NFT."

If someone designed Ethereum with this in mind I have to assume masochism is pretty high up on their list of design goals