Recently, I've seen the secondary market arguing back and forth over the royalty switch, honestly, everyone just wants "free trading," but creators also don't want to be disposable tools.

This kind of serious-minded person, after watching for a long time, instead feels that the core of the debate isn't about moral stance, but about implementation: if royalties can only rely on market self-discipline, it's like asking for tips in the description; but if they are forcibly deducted in the trading process, with multiple routes and aggregators, a quick bypass can eliminate it, and it also easily shifts slippage and friction onto ordinary buyers and sellers.

What's more awkward is that now, within communities, the boundaries between privacy coins/mixing and compliance are also tearing apart—some people shout "on-chain should be uncensorable," while others hope royalties "cannot be bypassed."
I don't have an answer either; I just feel that tying "creator income" completely to every secondary transaction might be too idealistic from the start...
Anyway, when I look at projects now, besides the work itself, I care more about what mechanisms they want to use to survive long-term, so they don't end up just extracting fees from each other.