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Because they're obviously hard to understand, so people are reluctant to immediately have strong opinions about it. The problem with things like the block size, op return and RBF is that they're deceptively simple. People don't feel like they need to spend a bunch of time reading up on the topic to form an opinion. Combine that with "influencers" to up the emotional ante and you have a recipe for drama.
It's a very similar dynamic as with bike shedding.
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