Imagine each sentence in this post started with "In my opnion".

Well no, it is not exciting. It is a mundane, boring, technical detail, and it makes things harder for application developers, so they certainly won't line up lobbying for it (except for @cel maybe? And @Matt McKegg if I get to be very hopeful?). But ultimately it improves the quality of the protocol.

Allow me another weak attempt at an analogy: Advocating a healthy and balanced diet to your children is neither fun nor flashy. And your children will fight you along the way, because chocolate is so much better in the short term. They will be angry, and they will project that anger at you. But still you keep your stance, because you know that long-term it is inevitably better to not base your diet upon chocolate.

This is how I feel about timestamps. They are super convenient, but also completely unreliable. You can't built a strong foundation upon timestamps, yet the protocol actively encourages to do exactly that. And people with privacy concerns are forced out of the community through social mechanisms. This is not healthy. In my opinion, the protocol devs have a responsibility to do the boring work and make the unpopular but correct choice.

I have yet to hear a single counter-argument that is not "convenience, fun, chocolate".