Recently, I saw someone arguing about secondary market royalties.

Honestly, everyone wants creators to survive, but both buyers and sellers complain about "being gouged."
I looked into a few on-chain transaction traces; when the royalty switch is toggled, the routing changes accordingly, and ultimately, who takes that money is actually more honest than verbal stances.
What's more awkward is that the income of miners/validators is also being criticized; as MEV increases, it becomes very hard for retail investors to feel that the ordering is fair:
You charge royalties and I say it's expensive, you don't charge royalties and creators are left starving...
Anyway, they're all fighting over the same pool.
As for whether I trust data more or intuition?
I lean towards trusting data; intuition is too easily swayed by "a hot trend," while data at least allows us to see the real choices in the queue.